TRAININGS GOING ON

I dropped by yesterday at 4:00pm in TESDA office building in Libertad, and was informed by LGU detailed personnel Mr. Miguelito Dagapioso that skills trainings for local recruits are going on, and this year's quota is getting meet only halfway. The 7.2m building, which houses office and equipment is not so much of a finished project but a total of 125 trainees are going to pass though the required accreditation tests soon qualifying them to be the in the local pool of skilled blue collar candidates to apply for domestic jobs or abroad. Dagapioso said that by January next year, they will be accepting applications for another batch of recruits to be trained with the same skills they offer this year to meet the required 225 trainees. Licensed engineers from TESDA are the examiners and the tests are practically what the trainees went through in their classes of lectures in the morning and hands-on in the afternoon. The skills they were taught are; construction painting, masonry, carpentry, plumbing, welding, electrical wiring,scaffolding installation and tile setting. And supplies, materials and equipment, everything needed for the trainings are available here, Dagapioso said. Most of the trainees are from Initao, he added.