Properly Guiding These Students In Their Early Employment

The government comes up with the program employing the students (senior high school and college students) through the program called Special Program for the Employment of Students or SPES.

The qualified students were given the chance during the vacation break from the month of April and May. These students need to work for one month and will be given salaries in minimum salary cap which is in accordance with the law.

The program is through the partnership of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the local government unit (LGU). Sixty percent of the salaries will be shouldered by the LGU and the 40 percent is by DOLE.  Not only the government sector particularly the LGU’s and national agencies can employed students but also the private business establishments like fastfood chains, supermarkets and grocery stores among others.

The qualified students for SPES should be among the indigent families though frankly this was not being followed because some of the employed are not members of indigent families. For example in the municipality wherein some of the employed are the daughters or sons of the employees of the town. Deserving students should also be within the allowable age which are entering senior high school and graduating in college.

Their salaries is expected to help them in their studies like tuition fees and miscellaneous fees of the school.

When employed these students are expected to work like a normal employees but not in supervisory level. They are usually designate in clerical job, sorting, secretarial or in short work as administrative aid and administrative assistant in the office.

Somehow, in the offices in the government they are usually assigned in different offices hoping it will develop them to become a good worker in the near future. It will improve their skills and education including technical know-how.

It’s so happen this is not happening in all of them because mostly are just sitting in the office because they don’t have the proper know-how in such kind of job. They are lack of education and some of the jobs cannot be trusted on them. Because of this they ended up cleaners, sweepers, garbage collectors if not just sitting in the office all through-out the office hours.

Sometimes, some people are thinking it’s just a waste of time, waste of money from the taxpayers and waste of space in the office.

The purpose of the program could be laudable because it could surely help their parents in high spending in their school. It would have been like that if the employed students are rightful one. Rightful means they are true indigent or poor people  and not just only because their father or mother help the elected mayor in his mayoralty bid. Its payback time and their sons and daughters were employed.

It would also been good if the hired students are competent workers, dependable and has the innovative in his day to day job.

The DOLE should have better program for these students. The overall impact should help the students and their families and not just giving these students money for their mobile phone load’s and data to update their facebook.###