This Center takes charge of providing education through training and job placement assistance to further bring to fruition the City’s vision of economic empowerment to the Tanaueño. ETEC conducts courses on job application preparedness and job maintenance to assist job hunters in being accepted to jobs and being able to keep them. In partnership with TESDA, it also offers skills development courses such as pipefitting, motorcycle repair and maintenance, massage therapy, food processing, handicrafts, aircondition machine ducting, etc., for industrial and self-employment. In 2009, it was able to produce about 300 graduates of barista, bartending and food and beverage training courses. Moreover, it conducts courses on entrepreneurship such as Salesmanship, Entrepreneurship 101, Marketing and Financial Literacy. From 2006-2011, it has trained about 3000 individuals in various fields. The employment status of graduates is good as majority have found jobs here and abroad, while many are self-employed. Linkages with Honda Phils., Inc., manpower agencies for overseas employment, the Public Employment Service Office (PESO) have helped us in landing people in jobs. Hence, we hear news from relatives of pipefitting, welding, aircon ducting graduates who have gone to Jeddah or Qatar to work, and are able to earn P18,000-P22,000 per month, aside from overtime pay. Our massage therapy graduates who go on call to clients earn about P3,000 to P10,000 on a monthly basis; those who go to clients in the nearby resorts earn more than this amount, one reporting a P24,000 income in a month! We also received news that most of our automotive graduates of 2006-2007 have earned regular employment status in the companies they work in. Our graduates of motorcycle repair are on OJT at Honda and some have already been deployed to Honda service centers around the country. Good news are so heartening that we institutionalized the inclusion of Values Education in all training courses, as desired by Mayor Sonia Torres Aquino herself, as she asserts that aside from skills, our graduates would be preferred and valued by employers and/or clients because of positive attitudes and work ethics. And she is consistently proven right. ETEC has participated actively in administering training programs for those displaced from industrial companies following the global financial crisis. Its courses have also been availed by returning OFWs for re-tooling and/or for use in alternative livelihood should they decide to remain in the country. Accounts of our graduates reveal that their lives were transformed partly as a result of the training. Having a stable means of livelihood allowed them to achieve greater confidence in themselves and in the current and future life of their families.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 04:57:52 +0000