Entrepreneur opens skills training center

Updated March 18, 2009 12:00 AM

CEBU, Philippines - As most companies these days are cutting on cost to manage the impact of the economic recession, ample skills that require lesser training is now becoming a prerequisite for a worker to land a good job.

This is one of the reasons why entrepreneur Glenn Anthony O. Soco opened up a new venture called Global Power Skills Development Center, Inc., which offers short training courses on housekeeping, food and beverage service and bartending.

Aimed to provide skills development to the workforce, Soco said that the training center will serve as a training ground that will produce more qualified people into the work force.

After having started early this year in January, the training center now offers housekeeping national certificate II, food and beverage service national certificate II and bartending which are among the top skills required in the hotel and restaurant services industry.

“Our courses are all TESDA accredited and we are looking at expanding these courses to accommodate more training for the hotel and restaurant service,” said Soco.

“We noticed a need to upgrade the skills of job applicants and align these skills so that they can qualify for the available jobs in the market. There are a lot of jobs in the market but there is a lack of qualified manpower,” he added.

Soco said that demand is particularly great in the restaurant and hotel industry as the number of new hotels and restaurants continue to expand in the city.

“There are more new hotels and restaurants opening in the city but the standard has become more challenging to cope so applicants need to really have further training to be in the best position to get the jobs available in the market,” said Soco.— Rhia de Pablo