Job bridging event in Samar kicks off
By NINFA B. QUIRANTE (PIA
Samar)
October 20, 2009
CATBALOGAN, Samar
– TESDA’s job bridging event in Samar province
kicked off with some 457 job applicants trying their luck at the Samar
State University (SSU) Gym on October 14, 2009.
Governor’s |
The job bridging event
is like a job fair where technical-vocational graduates ‘shop’ for
available jobs as employers and recruitment agencies were invited by
TESDA and tech-voc providers.
The tech-voc providers
are schools and institutions offering TESDA courses.
As a result of the
program, four qualified for the second screening with APAC, the call
center agency in Tacloban City.
Bayantel bared that
they are considering 38 applicants for submission of additional
documents.
Jollibee Catbalogan
also accepted 20 applicants for written exam.
As to another local
employer, Honeyben’s Flaming Hat Resto Inc. seven qualified for the
second screening.
Mayong’s Bakery hired
one worker on the spot.
People2Outsorce
another call center agency also hired one applicant on the spot.
According to TESDA
Provincial Director Cleta Omega, the event aims to assist tech-voc
graduates in finding employment through company referrals.
TESDA also invited
NGOs and Cooperatives with micro-lending facility that can be accessed
by tech-voc graduates interested in self-employment or entrepreneurial
endeavors; these are Ormoc Community Cooperative Incorporated (OCCI),
Samar Micro-Credit Cooperative (SAMICO) and Taytay sa Kauswagan (TSKI).
They had 86 clients subject to credit investigation.
Some three recruitment
agencies were also invited with job orders for Japan, Kuwait, Cyprus,
Dubai, Bahrain and Africa.
Out of the 181 job
applicants for overseas, some 67 applicants were scheduled for medical
exam and required additional documents.
Aside from the job
applications, demonstrations on programs and services also took place
as in bar tending, table skirting, computer clinic, free blood
pressure taking and other programs and services.
Tech-voc providers in
Samar that assisted TESDA included Basey Manpower Training Center, St
Mary’s College of Catbalogan, Samar College, Samar State College of
Forestry and Agriculture (SSCAF), Innovate, Eastern Visayas Training
Center (Basey), Tiburcio Tancinco Memorial Institute of Science and
Technology (TTMIST), STI (Calbayog) POSTC, Christ the King College,
RTC and Holy Rosary. (wiith report from Shiela Marie Taon-TESDA)
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