After getting positive feedback from his constituents for the health program, Rep. Benhur Salimbangon is now venturing into employment assistance both local and abroad for his constituents in the fourth district.
Under the program, the office of Salimbangon plans to establish several contacts in local and international companies and all their job hiring will be coursed through his office.
His staff is now disseminating information to all barangays in the fourth district about the program and encouraging jobseekers to come to their extension offices in every municipality in the district to inquire about the job hiring.
Once an applicant has seen a position he or she wants, the staff of Salimbangon shall then assist the applicant in filling up the application forms and bio-data and schedule the date for examinations and interview at the respective offices of the company that needs workers.
However, the in-charge of the employment assistance program, Malyn Paradero, clarified that applicants still has go through the process of applying for the job.
Paradero said that they must send quality workers to the companies that need them and it is not enough to just have a recommendation by Salimbangon and then be accepted by the company.
Paradero also reported that many applicants have been hired at Mactan Export Processing Zone, Mitsumi in Danao City and in some malls and department stores in Cebu.
They already have sent around 15 applicants to work abroad since the program was implemented.
Salimbangon said the health and employment assistance programs were his promise to the people of the fourth district.
The Benhur Health Program has already served hundreds of indigent patients at Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City and the Severo Verallo Memorial District Hospital in Bogo City.
Salimbangon, who said that he has his family and friends manning his office in Cebu to serve the constituents while he is in Congress, claimed he is never absent in their sessions and has already filed ten House Bills in Congress since he assumed office last July. — Gregg M. Rubio/BRP