Displaced OFWs told: Get Tesda training
02/24/2009 Tesda urges displaced OFWs to acquire training from their roster of programs fit to aid workers who have lost their jobs and re-match them with available jobs or retrain them for livelihood skills. Qualified OFW-trainees may also be hired as trainers of the said institution considering the added experience and skills they have acquired from their overseas jobs. Labor statistics put at 5,000 the OFWs who have already been displaced due to the global financial crisis. The report prompted Tesda to step up its traning interventions including courses in automotive, construction, metals and engineering, electronics, agriculture and fishery, processed food and beverages, tourism, health, social and other community development services; all of which are under the Pangulong Gloria Scholarships. Secretary Augusto Boboy Syjuco, Tesda director general, said OFWs now have a choice of retaining themselves with a different skill, definitely and advantage in seeking in-demand jobs abroad or in starting their own businesses. Trainee-applicants for Pangulong Gloria Scholarships must be at least 15 years old, have taken the National Career Assessment Examination or the Youth Profiling for Starring Careers, unemployed, underemployed, retrenched/displaced worker or returning overseas Filipino workers. Scholarship benefits include free career profiling, free full cost of training, training support fund, free competency assessment and certification and employment referral. For inquiries call Tesda hotline at 887-7777 / 0917-4794370 / 0918-2738232 or visit www.tesda.gov.ph  Back to top
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