In a world the place virtually every thing is accessible within the digital area, the Technical Schooling and Expertise Improvement Authority (TESDA) is conserving tempo by rolling out a cellular software that brings jobs, coaching, and scholarships onto a single platform.
TESDA, along with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., launched the TESDA Expertise Passport on Thursday, February 5, on the Makabagong San Juan Theater in San Juan Metropolis.
The TESDA Expertise Passport serves as a one-stop digital hub the place job seekers can discover employment alternatives, employers can join with expert staff, and customers can entry free coaching programs and scholarship applications.
The app additionally safekeeps the person’s TESDA nationwide certification, the official doc that proves the individual is “competent in a selected vocational talent” and the finished coaching applications. It additionally includes a fast response (QR)-enabled resume for “straightforward sharing with potential employers.”
Customers who’ve queries could faucet Prof. Okay, the app’s synthetic intelligence (AI) chatbot.
In accordance with TESDA Secretary Kiko Benitez, even non-TESDA graduates could use the app. They only need to be registered with the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) to create an account. The PhilSys registration is important to make sure that accounts are real.
Listed below are the important thing options of the app:
Discover jobs, staff
Identical to different job looking platforms, the TESDA Expertise Passport app permits customers to create a job profile and scour for employment alternatives.
The listings embrace the wage provide for the vacant place, the job sort, the work association, and the workplace location.
The company will associate with at the very least 4 job looking platforms to mixture the job listings into the app, providing a wider vary of alternatives for the customers.
“So, the app works in such a manner that it mainly hyperlinks you to [job search] portals,” Benitez advised reporters on the sidelines of the launch.
“Even in the event you don’t have a TESDA certificates per se, you’ll be able to mainly ship your software by way of the app,” he mentioned. “However clearly, the app is healthier when you have a TESDA certification as a result of then they’ll confirm the veracity of the certificates that you’ve got.”
Employers may search for staff within the app.
They only need to sort within the type of employee they want and profiles of the candidates will seem. Identical to in relationship apps, the employer can swipe left if he/she doesn’t see the profile match for the position and swipe proper to attach with the potential employee.
The app, Benitez mentioned, goals to deal with job mismatch.
“There are many jobs on the market — extra jobs, really, than there are unemployed Filipinos. So, there’s a mismatch, both a mismatch in abilities or a mismatch in entry to data as to the place the roles are and what it could take to get there. So, this app hopes to assist fill that hole,” he defined.
The Philippine Statistics Authority reported that there have been 2.25 million unemployed Filipinos and 5.11 million underemployed Filipinos in November 2025.
Studying paths, scholarship
Beneath the Studying Paths characteristic, customers could upskill by enrolling in e-TESDA programs. These are “huge Open On-line Programs for the technical training and abilities improvement of the Filipino workforce.”
The company presents varied on-line programs about agriculture, magnificence care, cookery, entrepreneurship, and knowledge and communication know-how, amongst others.
This characteristic permits even abroad Filipino staff to take the programs.
In the meantime, those that wish to take up technical training programs however lack funds could apply by way of TESDA’s scholarship applications.
The app has a Scholarship characteristic, whereby customers could entry in actual time the TESDA scholarship applications. They will fill out the kinds and monitor the standing of their software by way of the app.
“Dati, kailangang face-to-face mag-apply [ng scholarships]. Ngayon, magla-log in na lang sa TESDA Expertise Passport, pumunta lang sa Scholarship characteristic,” Benitez mentioned.
(Earlier than, scholarship functions needed to be carried out head to head. Now, you simply need to log in on the TESDA Expertise Passport and go to the Scholarship characteristic.)
The coaching is carried out in TESDA-accredited coaching, evaluation, and know-how establishments, which could be positioned by way of the app’s Coaching Establishment characteristic.
In the course of the launch, Marcos confused his administration’s help for training, saying it’s the basis for a profitable future.
“Bukod pa sa pagpaparami ng mga coaching at scholarship, lalo pa natin pinapadali at pinapalapit ang mga oportunidad sa ating mga kababayan,” he mentioned.
(Except for producing extra coaching and scholarships, we even made alternatives simpler and nearer to our fellow Filipinos.)
“Ginamit na natin ang blockchain para maliwanag na maganda at totoo lahat ng impormasyon na inyong binibigay [sa app],” he mentioned.
(We used blockchain to make sure that the data you enter within the app is true.)
Benitez mentioned correct protocols are in place to be sure that knowledge within the app might be preserved.
The app could be downloaded on iOS and Android units. – Rappler.com
