DOLE  Jobs Fit 2020 seen to solve job mismatch

SIQUIJOR, May 19 (PIA)---The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) here introduces  the Job Fit 2020 Program that is seen to solve the country’s perennial problems of jobs and skills mismatch.

In a press release earlier, DOLE-Siquijor Information Officer Jerome Alam echoed that the project aims to identify within the next ten years the preferred skills in priority industries that must be produced per region up to year 2020.

He said the project puts up together a robustly flexible road map that would guide students and new entrants to the labor force in identifying college and technical-vocational courses that they may pursue to be able to land in available industry jobs or to engage in self-employment undertakings after graduation.

The Jobs Fit road map will also be the basis for education sector and other concerned stakeholders in providing training educational scholarships and in developing appropriate curricula and career materials, he said.

He also said that DOLE Jobs Fit vision for 2020 encourages students to properly plan for their college degree and choose their career with their parents or other persons responsible for their education.

He said the vision  also gives emphasis on prioritizing blue collar instead of the traditional white collar jobs, pointing out  the need for skilled workers here and abroad and the possibility for self-employment through small and medium enterprises.

To encourage participation to the program, Alam also said that their office has conducted a series of career guidance seminars in which more than 800 students in 14 schools provincewide participated. 

Their office is also closely collaborating with the Public Employment Service Office (PESO) in each municipality with the support of the local government units (LGUs) in its conduct of seminars and orientation briefing.

This is to prepare and enlighten students in their choices for proper, feasible and employable courses. (Rizalie A. Calibo with reports from Inacher A.. Abatayo)

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New G-W@PS kiosk at Siquijor realizes gov’’t mission, says GSIS VP

By Rizalie A. Calibo

SIQUIJOR, May 19 (PIA)---The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) turns-over today the new and re-designed GSIS Wireless Automated Processing System (GW@APS) Kiosk to the Provincial Government of Siquijor.

GSIS Vice-President for Visayas and Mindanao Salvacion Mate, during the turn-over ceremony said, the new kiosk hopes to realize the mission of the new administration to be more responsive to the needs of the members as she admitted the difficulties experienced by the members in transacting with GSIS without the kiosk.

The new kiosk that is launched at the Provincial Capitol at 2:00 p.m. today, is one of the 575 new kiosks deployed all throughout the country in Provincial Capitols, Cit y Halls and some in division offices of the Department of Education (DepEd), apart from the 275 deployed during the last administration.

With the kiosks, Mate said, the GSIS was able to process 39,000 claims in 2009 and more than 100,000  in 2010 because of the improvement of the system.
GSIS members in Siquijor province can now apply for apply for loans, check their  membership and loan accounts through the G-W@PS kiosk. 

Following the unveiling of kiosk during the turn-over,  a demo on activation and loan availment with Provincial Governor Orlando A. Fua Jr.. , Vice Governor Andre Jesu E. Cortes and Lazi Vice Mayor D. Monte is done.

GSIS Update and Pre-retirement Seminar also follows at the Siquijor State College on May 20, 2011. (RACalibo/PIA-Siquijor)