Easier job matching and application are now within the reach of every Valenzuelano with the advent of the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) Skills Registry System (SRS) in the City of Valenzuela.

The essence of SRS is to establish and maintain a repository of the national manpower information, by which job opportunities shall be cascaded down to the registrants when demands arise and become available. 

An orientation themed, “Hahanapin Ka ng Trabaho Kung Ikaw ay Nakarehistro,” was held recently at the Valenzuela City Auditorium as a joint project of the City Government through the Public Employment Service Office (PESO) and the  DOLE - NCR,

Dir. Rhea Cabansag of Bureau of Local Employment (BLE), CAMANAVA District Office, tackled the expected output and measures to be undertaken to ensure an orderly data-collection process.  

PESO is the implementing arm of the SRS Project in the City.  Coordination with the Punong Barangays shall be undertaken for a purposive data gathering, encoding and updating of the registry. This entails all barangay units to be mobilized in assisting the implementation of the SRS.

The designated databank for the collated information is Phil-JobNet, an internet-based job and applicant matching system that can help expedite job seekers’ search for jobs and employers’ search for manpower. This is a facility of DOLE with centralized database maintained by BLE.

City Mayor Sherwin T. Gatchalian commended the DOLE for providing the essential skeletal support of PESO.  It supervises all the training and orientation requirements for the proper use and operation of the program. Advocacy materials, SRS forms and other support mechanisms are catered by this group. For monitoring purposes, this department shall be furnished by PESO with a copy of regular progress reports on the SRS project.

One of the guest-participants, Mr. Roque Tanalgo of the Workers Affairs Office (WAO), was pleased and at the same optimistic that the SRS program could address the common “job placement mis-match issues” that our people are bearing for quite some time.

Mayor WIN expects the SRS to be incorporated in the forthcoming agendas of the Liga ng Mga Barangay to ensure the project’s smooth transition and implementation.