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The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) today said that a
valuable, free Career Guide has been made accessible online for new
graduates and jobseekers at the newly launched GMA (Greater Modular
Access) Jobs Center kiosks now operational in key malls and local
government units nationwide.
By means of the Career Guide, the DOLE, through
the Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) that supervises the GMA Jobs
Center, aims to broaden relevant information on highly in-demand,
but hard to fill occupations, and increase the access to
opportunities.
By making widely available such valuable career
guidance information for free in the Internet, DOLE said jobs and
skills mismatch can be further remedied to facilitate job hunting
for Filipinos, specially the youth.
Toward this purpose, the BLE and the
International Labor Organization, developed the complementary
Guiding Youth Careers—A handbook for those young jobseekers.
Also accessible online, the said handbook may be
used by guidance counselors in vitally assisting young jobseekers,
by providing them with effective direction and advice pertaining to
their career and job searches.
The Career Guide is a series of occupational
briefs on more than 40 occupations, and contains relevant
information such as the nature of a job, its education and
competency requirements, earnings, employment and job outlook.
He added that the guide covers the in-demand
occupations identified during the DOLE-led National Human Resource
Conference in 2007.
The occupations are: accountant, aircraft
mechanic, animator, architect, barista, bartender, CAD operator,
call-center agent, caregiver, chef, civil engineer, commercial
airline pilot, computer programmer, cook, dietician, electrical
engineer, geologist, heavy equipment mechanic, heavy equipment
operator, hotel reservations officer, massage therapist,
mechanical engineer, medical technologist, medical transcriptionist,
metallurgical engineer, mining engineer, nursing assistant, physical
therapist, optometrist, pharmacist, physical therapist,
professional nurse, receptionist, retail salesperson, room
attendant, software engineer, surveyor, telemarketer, tour guide,
travel agent, waiter/waitress, welding and metal fabricator.
The GMA Job Center kiosks were launched
nationally at the following malls on May 1: Starmills (San
Fernando, Pampanga); Galeria (Ortigas) and Forum (Pioneer,
Mandaluyong); Lipa City, Batangas, and Dasmarñias, Cavite; Iloilo
City and Bacolod City, and earlier at the Robinson’s Mall in
Malate, Manila.
The GMA Jobs Center is the Philippines’ first
unified and synchronized system incorporating the DOLE’s
time-tested Phil-Jobnet job search facility, with a better capacity
to reach out to a much greater client base with free, relevant jobs
and skills information.
Besides the online kiosks, the Career Guide is
also readily accessible at the Internet directly through the
Philjobnet website at www.phil-job.net, or the Bureau of Local Employment
website at www.ble.dole.gov.ph.
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