Ma. Czarina de Guzman, SKY Consumer Sales head and incoming Broadband LOB head; March Ventosa, SKY COO; Simon Fraser, JobStart team leader; Emma Javier, PESO manager; Ma. Corazon Pepito, DOLEPapamamarisan director; and Ed Pahate, SKY incoming Consumer Sales headSKY and Scope Global held a memorandum of agreement signing ceremony for the Job-Start programs of Taguig and Mandaluyong at the ELJ Communications Center, Quezon City on April 12, 2016.

JobStart seeks to assist unemployed and out-of-school youth find decent jobs by supporting them to make informed career decisions and by giving them a chance to improve their technical skills and to develop life skills necessary to succeed in today’s competitive workplace. It enables the Department of Labor and Employment to partner with employers through a training internship of up to six months.

The JobStart program is funded by the Asian Development Bank through a grant from the Canadian government. (Story/Photo by: Dino Quizon)