The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) chose Winsource Business Solutions, Inc. (Winsource), a subsidiary of Winace Holdings Philippines, Inc., as partner training institution for its PGMA Training for Work Scholarship Program. The scholarship grants qualified individuals free training in various courses such as call center and basic software programming. Training sessions are facilitated by TESDA-accredited instructors with Winsource providing the training facility.

Winsource Training Supervisor for Organizational Development Raymond Cardiño says the uniqueness of Winsource being a TESDA partner is its Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) post-training facility. “Unlike in other partner institutions, we follow through the scholars after the training and help them find jobs. They can either be hired by Winsource, or we can place them with our clients,” he says. Cardiño reports a 15% hiring success out of the 218 participants so far, four of which are now working as call center agents with Winsource, while others are in the process of being placed.

Scholars trained at Winsource also benefit from the privilege of using state-of-the-art facilities. Students attending the software programming class, for instance, enjoy using one dedicated computer each, are provided a hardcopy of the training manuals each, unlike in other partner training institutions where either manuals are not allowed to be taken home, if at all they exist. Classes are also taught using multimedia facilities. 

Since the TESDA training sessions were held at Winsource in July 13 this year, there had been three waves of call center training sessions compromising 10, 2, and 3 classes per wave, respectively; and each class having a minimum of 25 students per class.   Students are taught effective English communication skills and the basics of customer relations.

Meanwhile, scholars of the basic software programming class learn basic Cobol, MS.net, Oracle, and Java programming languages. “These cost P30,000 to P40,000 per language if you get the training elsewhere,” says Cardiño, lauding the government’s “tangible benefit to the people” through the scholarship program.

Cardiño invites individuals to take advantage of this privilege from the government, and from Winsource, even as both organizations work hand in hand in the ultimate mission, as defined by Winace Holdings Philippines, Inc. chairman Teodorico T. Haresco., Jr., to provide jobs for all Filipinos.