READY FOR EMPLOYMENT. The seventh batch of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority - Training for Work Scholarship graduates strike a pose with TESDA Misamis Oriental provincial director Leo V Velez, Xavier University - Center for Integrated Technologies director Dr Gilda B Brito, XU-CIT program resource coordinator Oliva E Lim, XU campus minister Terence Maceren, and XU-CIT trainers. Supplied photo.
By Rose Ann C Gicole
The Center for Integrated Technologies (CIT) of Xavier University and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) conducted a culminating activity for the 7th batch of graduates under the TESDA Training for Work Scholarship (TWSP) earlier this month.
Both TESDA Misamis Oriental provincial director Leo V Velez and XU-CIT director Dr Gilda B Brito gave inspirational messages to the new graduates who recently passed the TESDA Skills Assessment Program at the Cobsat Assessment Center in Bugo, Cagayan de Oro City.
The graduates, who are now National Certificate II holders, wish to seek new opportunities as the global technical business industry now prefers skills-acquainted workers.
With TESDA’s financial assistance coupled with the technical education and Jesuit formation provided by XU, the TESDA-TWSP scholars are confident they will land good-paying and professionally challenging jobs in the country and even abroad.
This year, CIT has already trained seven batches of TWSP scholars who also passed the assessment for a TESDA National Certificate II in Shielded Metal Arc Welding.
The first six batches are now employed at the partner companies of XU-CIT, namely, Philippine Sinter Corporation, Makati Development Corporation, Metalite, and Hanjin, among others. Others are currently undergoing an advanced technical training at the Philippine Nippon Technical College bound for Japan.
The said culminating event, organized by CIT resource center program coordinator Oliva E Lim, was held at the CIT - Jose Chavez Alvarez Technology Campus along Masterson Avenue, Upper Carmen, CDO. ∎