CAREER GUIDANCE

PROGRAM
Quarter 3 - Module 3:
Reaffirming the Chosen Track

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 Career Guidance Program
Quarter 3 - Module 3: Reaffirming the Chosen Track

Introduction

Information is essential in every decision making. Information is usually

gathered from various sources to give a better picture of what we want to know
and on what bases we are making such a decision. This module presents several
sources of information about career choices that could influence or modify the
decisions we make for our future.

At the end of this module, the learners are expected to:

1. determine the different sources of information relevant to curriculum exits;
2. evaluate the different sources of information relevant to their preferred curriculum
exit;
3. match the knowledge and skills to the job market demands and possible curriculum
exits; and
4. value the importance of the chosen track/strand.

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 Lesson 1 Reaffirming the Chosen Track

In choosing a career, it is essential to first acquire substantial information about the

different courses in order to come up with a valid and well-thought of decision. Laying down
all possibilities and considering several prospects would result in a more advantageous,
attainable, and viable career path.

Sources of Information

Schools’ Guidance Office

A school’s guidance office is managed primarily by a Registered Guidance Counselor

(RGC) as mandated by RA 9258, who implements a Career Guidance Program that provides
career counseling to both individuals and groups; administers and interprets career tests;
and provides other services such as referral, placement, research, information, and
orientation.

In the absence of an RGC, a career guidance advocate may lead the implementation of a
career guidance advocacy program in the school. An advocate facilitates the information
dissemination of career related materials such as Labor Market Information; coordinates
with the local government units whereas labor and work related offices such as the
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Technical Education Skills and Development
Authority (TESDA), Public Employment Service Office (PESO), and other stakeholders;
serves as conduit in the implementation of the DepEd Career Guidance Advocacy Program
between the schools division offices and the schools; and manages other related Career
Guidance Advocacy activities.

The limitation to the conduct of the Career Guidance Program of career guidance
advocates to a legally valid term of Career Guidance Advocacy Program is consistent with the
provisions of RA 9258 otherwise known as the Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004 and RA
10533 otherwise known as the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013.

Career guidance advocates may only conduct certain career guidance-related activities
that are part of the Career Guidance Program which an RGC is explicitly mandated to conduct
as provided for in the above-mentioned laws.

Career Guidance information is generally available in the guidance offices.

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 Department of Education

The Department of Education (DepEd) is a government agency that formulates,

implements, and coordinates policies, plans, programs, and projects in the areas of formal
and nonformal basic education. It supervises all elementary and secondary education
institutions, including alternative learning systems, both public and private; and provides for
the establishment and maintenance of a complete, adequate, and integrated system of basic
education relevant to the goals of national development.

The Department through its partnerships with industries and private entities may
provide the needed labor market information in coordination with DOLE.

DepEd can be reached through its website: www.deped.gov.ph/.

Department of Labor and Employment

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is a national government agency that
envisions that every Filipino worker attains full, decent, and productive employment. It
formulates policies and implements labor laws and labor-related legislations in order to
promote gainful employment opportunities, develop human resources, protect workers and
promote their welfare, and maintain industrial peace.

DOLE has different bureaus addressing specific concerns on labor. They include the
Bureau of Local Employment, Labor Relations, Workers with Special Concerns, Working
Conditions, International Labor Affairs, regional offices, and the Philippine Overseas Labor
officers.

Bureau of Local Employment

The Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) develops policies, researches, labor market
analysis, strategies, programs, projects, operating guidelines and standards, and provides
advisory relative to local employment promotion and administration.

Programs/Projects of the Bureau

Project Jobs Fit — The DOLE 2020 Vision or PROJECT JOBSFIT is the forerunner of the
Department of Labor and Employment’s priority deliverable projects for 2009. This forward
looking activity was based on researches, information gathering, and networking with key
stakeholders. It was carried out as part of DOLE’s firm resolve to adopt coherent and
innovative strategies to carry out its mandate in providing efficient employment facilitation
services and respond to the prevailing skill and job mismatch underlying the unemployment
and underemployment problems in the country.

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 Labor Market Information―The Project “JobsFit” resulted in the formulation of the Labor
Market Information (LMI) which provides timely, relevant, and accurate signals on the
current labor market such as in-demand jobs and skills shortages by developing clientspecific
LMI education and communication materials.

The material is part of the commitment of DOLE to support the Career Guidance
Advocacy Program which seeks to promote career guidance as tool in assisting jobseekers
particularly students in making informed career choices.

In developing the LMI, DOLE engages its key stakeholder―industry, academe, and labor
employers’ groups―to gather labor market signals. Training and educational institutions
use them in reviewing their respective curricula, policies, standards, and guidelines to keep
them abreast with industry requirements.

Example:Region 6

Example: Region 6

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 Philjobnet—Phil-Jobnet is an automated job and applicant matching system which aims to
fast-track jobseekers search for jobs and employers search for human resource. It can be
accessed through www.phil-job.net.

The Bureau of Local Employment can be reached through its website: www.ble.dole.gov.ph/

Bureau of Labor Relations

The Bureau of Labor Relations (BLR) develops policies, programs, projects, operating
guidelines and standards, and provides advisory relative to the administration and
enforcement of laws pertaining to labor―management relations including workers’
organization, registration, and development, and resolving appealed intra- and inter-union
disputes.

Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns

The Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns (BWSC) develops policies, programs, projects,
operating guidelines and standards, and provides advisory/assistance relative to the
development and protection of workers that include own-account and self-employed
workers; informal and rural workers including sugar workers, women workers, young
workers, working children, differently-abled, the older and elderly workers, and workers in
the personal service of another.

Bureau of Working Conditions

The Bureau of Working Conditions (BWC) primarily performs policy and program
development and advisory functions in the administration and enforcement of laws relating
to labor standards.

International Labor Affairs Bureau

The International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB) develops policies, plans/programs, projects,
guidelines/procedures, and standards relative to international labor and employment
concerns; and monitors the country’s observance and implementation of all obligations,
courtesies, and facilities required by international labor affairs/associations/institutions. It
also provides advisory service in the supervision, monitoring, and reporting of
operations/activities of the Philippine Overseas Labor Offices (POLO) in different countries,
and serves as the instrumentality for technical cooperation, programs, and activities with
other countries and international institutions.

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 Regional Offices

The regional offices and field offices are the operating arms for directly implementing
the plans and programs developed by the bureaus and administering and enforcing labor
standards and laws. Each regional office has a Mediation Arbitration and Legal Service Unit,
an Internal Management Services Division, Technical Services and Support Division, and
field offices.

Philippine Overseas Labor Offices

The Philippine Overseas Labor Offices (POLO) act as the operating arms of the
Department in their respective geographical areas for the administration and enforcement
of duly adopted policies and programs of the Department on international labor affairs. It
has Middle Eastern Affairs Division, American and European Affairs Division, Asian and
Pacific Affairs Division and the International Relations and Cooperation Division.

To further implement its mandate effectively, DOLE has the following attached and/or
coordinating agencies:

Employees’ Compensation Commission

The Employee Compensation Commission (ECC) formulates policies, programs, guidelines

on occupational safety and health in the areas of prevention, compensation and
rehabilitation; undertakes continuing research and studies; extends technical assistance and
advice on hazard recognition, risk assessment and abatement and control of hazards; plans,
develops, prescribes, implements, and monitors training programs on occupational safety
and health; acts as clearinghouse of information on all matters pertaining to Occupational
Safety Hazards; and reviews and/or decides appealed cases from the GSIS and SSS.

National Conciliation and Mediation Board

The National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) formulates, develops, and
implements policies, programs, projects, standards, procedures, manuals of operations, and
guidelines for the effective conciliation and mediation of labor disputes, and promotes
workplace relations enhancement schemes, grievance handling, voluntary arbitration, and
other voluntary modes of dispute prevention and settlement.

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 Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration

The Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) formulates and implements

policies, programs, and projects in the administration of the welfare fund for overseas
workers to be used for social and welfare services including insurance coverage, legal
assistance, placement assistance, and remittance services.

Philippine Overseas Employment Administration

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) promotes and develops the
overseas employment program, protects the rights of migrant workers and regulates private
sector participation in recruitment and overseas placement.

National Labor Relations Commission

The National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) is a quasi-judicial body tasked to promote
and maintain industrial peace by resolving labor and management disputes involving both
local and overseas workers through compulsory arbitration and alternative modes of dispute
resolution.

National Wages and Productivity Commission

The National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) acts as the national consultative
and advisory body on matters relating to wages, incomes, and productivity; formulates
policies, programs, guidelines, and standards on wages, income and productivity
improvement programs; and reviews regional wage levels set by the Regional Tripartite
Wages and Productivity Boards (RTWPBs).

Professional Regulation Commission

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) regulates and supervises the practice of the
professionals who constitute the highly skilled manpower of the country.

This government agency can be reached through its website: www.prc.gov.ph/

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 Technical Education and Skills Development Authority

The TESDA manages and supervises technical education and skills development (TESD) in
the country. It is the leading partner in the development of the Filipino workforce with
world-class competence and positive work values.

To provide equitable access and provision of TESD programs to the growing TVET
clients, TESDA continues to undertake direct training provisions. There are four training
modalities — school-based, center-based, enterprise-based, and community-based. These are
being done with TESDA’s infrastructure in place—57 TESDA administered schools, 60
training centers, enterprise-based training through DTS/apprenticeship, and
communitybased training in convergence with the LGUs.

This government agency can be reach through its website: www.tesda.gov.ph/.

Government Service

The Civil Service Commission is the Human Resource Department of the government that
promotes morale, efficiency, integrity, responsiveness, progressiveness, and courtesy in the
Civil Service.

This government agency can be reach through its website: www.csc.gov.ph/.

Local Government Unit Level

The Public Employment Service Office is a non-fee charging multi-employment service

facility or entity established or accredited pursuant to Republic Act No. 8759 otherwise
known as the PESO Act of 1999.

They carry out full employment and equality of employment opportunities for all, and
for this purpose, to strengthen and expand the existing employment facilitation service
machinery of the government particularly at the local levels there shall be established in all
capital towns of provinces key cities, and other strategic areas,

It is community-based and maintained largely by local government units (LGUs) and a

number of nongovernment organizations (NGOs) or community-based organizations (CBOs)
and state universities and colleges (SUCs). The PESOs shall be linked to the regional offices
of DOLE for coordination and technical supervision, and to the DOLE central office, to
constitute the national employment service network.

For more information please visit your PESO located in your municipalities, cities and/or
provinces.

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 Higher Education

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is the key leader of the Philippine higher
education system effectively working in partnership with other major higher education
stakeholders in building the country’s human capital and innovation capacity towards the
development of a Filipino nation as a responsible member of the international community.

This government agency can be reach through its website: www.ched.gov.ph/.

Business and Enterprise

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is tasked to foster a competitive and innovative
industry and services sector that contributes to job generation and inclusive growth; and to
advance the rights and responsibilities of consumers.

This government agency can be reach through its website: www.dti.gov.ph/

Note: Aside from the government sources of information, there are also other local and
international websites, private organizations, companies, and the like that may offer
information on career matching and job placement. However, the Department of Education
does not endorse in any other way, form, nor connected with the websites or companies
mentioned.

Ex. Edukasyon.ph, JobStreet, WorkAbroad.ph., Trabaho.com, Kalibrr, Monster Philippines,

Gigajob Philippines, JobsDB,

Application:

Activity Sheet 3.1 : Reach for a Star

(Please answer Activity 3.1 in your Activity Sheet)

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