SABANGAN, Mountain Province – Some twenty four farmers from the different parts of the province were interviewed by three Japanese employers for possible work deployment to Japan within the next several months.
Dexter Badaran, president and general manager of the Manila-based Philippine Human Resource Global Information Center (PHGIC), said that the group from Mountain Province is composed of 15 female and 9 male farmers who are now in the final stages of the process prior to their deployment to their work in Komamoto which is an agriculture-producing prefecture in Japan.
He claimed that the number of interviewed farmers is the biggest batch of prospective overseas workers who are now completing their deployment process in preparation for their scheduled flights to Komamoto by February next year.
The PHGIC official disclosed that part of the skills of the male workers is wielding which will be part of their work when deployed to their prospective employers while the female farmers will focus on farming activities, such as the farm preparation and harvesting.
The interview by the Japanese employers is the final stage of the deployment of the qualified workers to their assigned work in Japan.
The deployment of potential overseas workers from the province to Japan is an initiative of the Dominguez family in partnership with the PHGIC to help qualified and skilled workers have gainful employment.
The full blast recruitment by the PHGIC of skilled workers from the province started only last April but the potential overseas workers had first to undergo the required 4 to 6 months of Nihongo language training which was brought to the province in partnership with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).
However, the TESDA partnership was eventually shortened due to various issues that were raised by some politicians forcing the workers to look for interested partners aside from the Dominguez family to help them pursue their training.
The PHGIC is a non-government organization that established linkages with numerous Japanese companies needing the appropriate human resources.
Badaran stipulated that the PHGIC partnership with the Dominguez family started several years back where the focus of deployment was caregivers with more than 60 residents from the province who benefited through the years before the agency expanded to other skills.
He assured that the company will continue to strive to ensure the possible hiring and deployment of the residents of the province to Japan because there are many Japanese employers who are in need of skilled workers from the Philippines.
He revealed that by the second week of November, 2 residents of Tadian will be deployed after the 4 workers from towns of the province left to their employers’ farms in Komamoto last month.