THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) emphasized the importance of the career guidance program together with the Public Employment Services Office (Peso) to help high school students decide on which career path to take after graduation.
Dole-Davao Regional Director Joffrey Suyao said as part of the department’s employment facilitation programs, a network of career guidance counselors and advocates are conducting career seminars at different high schools in the region addressing to junior and senior high school students.
The programs are being done in coordination with school administration and the local Peso and Dole units in the area.
“In this aspect, we provide our guidance and counselors and career market advocates with what our industries need now. What are the hard-to-fill jobs? What are the in-demand jobs? What are the jobs with more employments? What jobs needed more skills? This is for these counselors to be able to communicate to their students,” he said emphasizing the need for these career market advocates for clearer understanding of the current labor market information of the region.
The objective of the program is for students to be provided with adequate information and knowledge of the possible careers and to lessen cases of shifting of courses in the middle of their college years.
“Aside from working closely with Peso, we also have managed to link together the career advocates and guidance counselors all over the region. In this way, the students won’t need to regret taking a course and eventually learning that there would be less job offered to them after graduation,” said Suyao.
