The Philippine Embassy has signed a deal up with a private
company for the first-ever, TESDA-accredited competency assessment center
in Abu Dhabi, with credentials of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who made
it, planned to be honored by the UAE National Qualification Authority (NQA).
A TESDA training center is also being planned to be opened this year,
according to Labor Attaché Ophelia Almenario.
“We are currently promoting the opening of the first TESDA-accredited
assessment center, Orient Management Consulting and Training,” Almenario
told The Filipino Times in a signed official letter.
She said interested OFWs may register at the embassy’s Philippine Overseas
Labor Office (POLO) by filling up Manpower Profile and Application Form;
and a Self-Assessment Guide.
After doing so, an evaluation follows of which the result, a list of prospective
candidates, shall be forwarded to the Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (TESDA) with a request for a TESDA representative to
come to the UAE for the assessment.
OFWs in the following skills qualify for the TESDA competency assessment:
Housekeeping
Bookkeeping
Food and Beverage
Front office staff
Customer services
Trainers methodology
Events management services
Visual graphics designing
Technical drafting (mechanical)
Technical drafting (structural)
“In effect, by increasing OFWs’ credibility and employability, skills
competence upgrading, boosting their credentials…, the TESDA certificates
will soon be honored by the UAE’s National Qualification Authority,”
Almenario said.
A TESDA competency certification opens more employment opportunities.
