138. IP graduates lack regular monitoring. Without regular monitoring, the NCIP is unaware of the status and situation of IP graduates. However, the NCIP participant hopes they can keep track of their graduates by improving the agency's mechanism, particularly with the operationalization of the educational system program information system. 139. There is a lack of comprehensive studies on the employment of persons with disabilities. To date, there is no comprehensive and indepth study that shows the current data of persons with disabilities employed and unemployed. As one CSO participant shares, even government agencies try to look for people with the least impact of disabling conditions to fulfill the one percent (1%) of their regular and nonregular positions reserved for persons with disabilities. 140. There are several issues with capacitating persons with disabilities in using available technologies. As a CSO participant notes, while many useful software programs have been developed for persons with visual impairment for online jobs, only a handful of agencies and advocacy groups offer the skills training to them, and those who do, have limited or lack of facilities to train them to use the technologies available. Moreover, no one evaluates if the skills training programs being offered are still relevant and responsive to the needs of the persons with disabilities, and not many persons with developmental impairments avail of the skills training programs. 141. IP graduates also face underemployment. Some college graduates do not practice their profession. As the NCIP participant reports, they know of someone who has finished a college degree and works as a salesperson. CSOs and Advocacy Groups Cost of transportation 142. Persons with disabilities are more willing to work part-time than work full-time for a minimum wage. As one CSO participant relates, many persons with visual impairment are content doing online teaching part-time. They do not look for other jobs anymore because they only need a computer with an internet connection and they do not need to leave their house, which is costlier for them to do because they will have to commute twice and pay a guide, leaving them with not much from their salary. 143. Although some persons with disabilities, such as those with intellectual impairment, may be competent skill-wise, a CSO participant notes that they may lack social and daily living. Another CSO participant stresses the importance of soft skills for persons with disabilities because they had cases of persons with disabilities resigning after two weeks or one month of employment, and the longest time persons with visual impairment have stayed in BPO companies is from two to three years. 53