MindanaoToday.com | DOLE-GIP, a career game changer for Misamisnon
OROQUIETA CITY, Misamis Occidental – “Who would have thought that GIP could be a game changer for my career?” said Sarah Mae H. Tago, a former Government Internship Program (GIP) beneficiary.
Tago was promoted to GIP Program Coordinator II on April 1.
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-10 Chief Ebba B. Acosta of the Misamis Occidental Provincial Field Office (MisOcc PFO) announced that the DOLE MisOcc Provincial Field Office has accepted Tago, 23, a graduate of the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Financial Management, as an intern from September 1 to December 6, 2023.
Tago showed outstanding potential as a public servant with her tasks in assisting the different departments’ programs, notably the GIP and DOLE Integrated Livelihood Programme, according to Acosta. She was then offered a job order position as an office clerk in the said PFO. A few months later, they promoted her to coordinator.
“I applied for the job opportunity from DOLE-10 to gain work experience after some time being unable to find work,” she said.
At the same time, she was urgently looking for income to help financially support her family, since she said that during that time, her father had been unemployed due to a stroke and her mother, a small retail vendor, could not make ends meet for her family, especially when they only rely on the small sales from the store and the monthly allowance from the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Tago’s perseverance and diligence, coupled with prayers, paid off when she also passed the Civil Service Examination in March 2024.
DOLE Administrative Order No. 39, Series of 2014, governs DOLE-GIP, providing opportunities and engaging young workers to serve the public in government agencies and entities’ projects and programs at the national and local levels. (DOLE-10 Misamis Occidental/PIA-10/Misamis Occidental)
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