GENERAL SANTOS CITY --- About 118,000 graduates of various technical
vocational (tech-voc) programs in Region-12 (Soccsksargen) last year have
already landed jobs locally and abroad.
Rafael
Abrogar II, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)-12
director, said last February 12 that the employed graduates represent about 88
percent of the 134,371 who completed the skills training programs facilitated
by the agency in 2019.
He said
the data was based on the preliminary result of the Survey of Employability of
Technical and Vocational Education and Training Graduates (SETG) released by
the TESDA Planning Office.
“The 88
percent employment rate was the second highest in the country (for 2019),” he
said in a statement.
Abrogar
said the high employment rate among local tech-voc graduates shows that their
accredited schools and training institutions were producing quality and
highly-skilled workers.
He said
it was an indication that the agency’s efforts to link tech-voc graduates with
potential domestic or local and foreign employers are gaining ground.
In the
region, he said, several companies had already sought their assistance for the
hiring of quality skilled workers.
Most of
the firms are engaged in construction-related projects under the national
government’s flagship “Build, Build, Build” program, he said.
Last
year, private contractor Vicente T. Lao Construction Corp. partnered with
TESDA-12 to help meet its manpower requirement for the delayed city
international airport terminal rehabilitation project.
Abrogar
said they would continue this year the partnership with the Department of Labor
and Employment in matching tech-voc graduates with local industries through
various programs, among them the World Café of Opportunities.
World
Café of Opportunities is a job fair that aims to connect government and private
companies to tech-voc graduates.
Abrogar
said they will make sure that tech-voc graduates would not only gain skills but
land jobs as well, based on their marching orders from TESDA Director General
Secretary Isidro Lapeña.
“The
primary purpose of technical education and skills training is employment,” he
added, quoting Lapeña. (RICHELYN GUBALANI, PNA, MINDANAO EXPOSE')
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