By Alma L. Tingcang
PAGADIAN CITY, June 26 -
- The city government of Pagadian, in coordination with the Department of Labor
and Employment, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority, Tripartite Industrial Peace Council
and the Pagadian Association of Recruitment Agencies, in line with its 43rd
charter day celebration sponsored a Job Fair on June 21 at the City Commercial
Center.
A total of 1,752 job vacancies were made available by 18 local
employers and 3 overseas employment agencies drawing a large number of job
hunters to the venue, hopeful to land a decent job at the end of the day.
DOLE Assistant Regional Director Virginia L. Bonbon read the
message of Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz which was intended for the DOLE’s Kalayaan
Job Fair on June 12, but since Pagadian City was celebrating its Charter Day on
June 21, they opted to hold it on the
eventful date.
ARD Bonbon likewise turned over Special Program for the
Employment of Students (SPES) checks amounting to P63,360 for 44 grantees in
the municipality of Vincenzo Sagun, Zamboanga del Sur and P20,160 for 14
grantees in the town of Pitogo.
She also turned-over the Skills Registry (SRS) equipment to Engr.
Joseph Isaias M. Quipot VI, Pagadian City’s Public Employment Service Office
(PESO) Manager and National PESO Executive Vice President.
The SRS is an electronic system that captures and
updates uploaded data such as workers skills, qualifications, among others, as
well as the roster of establishments and vacancies in the cities, towns and
barangays in a repository of 'live' register of skills accessible to reflect
the relevant labor market information needed in every area in the region.
It intends to address the problem of job-skills mismatch. (ALT-PIA9/Zambo Sur)