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FUNCTIONS

The Public Employment Service Office (PESO) is a non-fee charging multi-dimenstional employment service facility or entity established in all Local Government Units (LGUs) in coordination with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) pursuant to R.A. No. 8759 or the PESO Act of 1999 as amended by R.A. No. 10691.

OBJECTIVES

GENERAL OBJECTIVE:

a. Ensure prompt and efficient delivery of employment facilitation services as well as to provide timely information on labor market and DOLE Programs.

Specific Objectives:

            a. Provide a venue where people could explore simultaneously various employment options and actually seek assistance they prefer.

            b. Serve as referral and information center for the various services and programs of DOLE and other government agencies present in the area.

            c. Provide clients with adequate information on employment and labor market situation in the area.

            d. Network with other PESOs within the region on employment for job exchange purposes.

Core Services:

  • Labor Market Information

Labor Market Information constitutes any information that affects the movement of labor supply and demand.

The following are the activities that relates to the provision of LMI Services:

a. Encourage employers to submit to the PESO on a regular basis a list of job vacancies in their respective establishments.

b. Provide job vacancy information to job seekers, both for local and overseas employment and recruitment assistance to employers.

c. Generate information about the labor supply and demand in various dis-aggregation level.

  • Referral and Placement

Referral is a process of directing per-screened job seekers to employers with vacancies matching their qualifications, while placement is the result of a successful referral.

The following are the activities in conducting referral and placement:

  1. Provide referral to job seekers who match qualification requirement of vacancies  posted by employers. 
  • Provide persons with entrepreneurship qualities access to various livelihood and self-employment programs offered by both government and non-government organization at the provincial/city/municipal/barangay levels by undertaking referrals for such program. 
  • Refer job seekers to skills training to different centers if the former is willing to undergo the said training. 
  • Make follow-up to the employer regarding the status of the referred job seekers.
  • Employment Coaching and Career Counseling

 Employment Guidance and Counseling is a process of assisting people intellectually and psychologically to make decisions about their career and act to realize it.

The following are the basic task to consider in providing the services:

  1. Conduct pre-employment counseling and orientation to prospective local and overseas worker.
  • Identify occupationally set or not set job seekers and provide appropriate referrals to them.
  • Counsel job seekers base on the current labor market situation.
  • Provide employment or occupational counseling,career guidance,mass motivation and values development activities.
  • Conduct career guidance and employment counseling to graduating students of             secondary,tertiary and technical/vocational school.

f. Undertake employability enhancement seminar for job seekers as well as those who would like to change career or enhance their employability.

  • OTHER PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTED BY PESO
  1. Jobs Fair – This is an employment strategy which brings  together in one venue job seekers and employer for immediate hiring.
  2. Special Program for Employment of Students(SPES) – This program is intended  to help the poor but deserving students pursue their education by means of employment.
  3. Workers Hiring for Infrastructural Project (WHIP) – Is a program which aims to employ constituents of LGUs where construction project of the department of Public Works and Highways/Provincial/City/Municipal Government are constructed/located.

d. Recruitment Assistance to employer both for focal and overseas employment.

e. Phil-Job. Net – An automated job and applicant matching system which aims to fast-tract  job seeker search for job and employers search for manpower.

f. Perform the function of a Migrant Desk Officer & Anti-Illegal Recruitment Desk Officer

g. Other programs/activities develop by DOLE, POEA ,OWWA other GOs/NGOs to enhance provision  of employment other assistance to PESO clients.

h. Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantage/Displaced Workers or TUPAD – provides emergency employment for displaced workers, underemployed and seasonal workers for a minimum period of 10 days, but not to exceed a maximum of 30 days, depending on the nature of work to be performed.

ACTIVITIES