Palace urges new graduates: Try tour guide, translator careers

By: 11 years ago

Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang on Saturday urged fresh high school graduates who could not afford college education to take technical-vocational courses for tour guides and foreign translators.

Deputy Presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte endorsed courses offered by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda), particularly on foreign language skills.

“For our fresh graduates, if you are thinking that your parents can’t send you to study for college, maybe you can try the vocational course of Tesda, where they offer foreign language courses,” Valte said in Filipino over state-run radio dzRB.

Valte said she was told by Tesda chief Joel Villanueva that jobs requiring language skills like tour guides and foreign translators are in demand.

“For Filipinos who can speak different languages, you can be employed as tour guides here in the country because we have many tourists,” she said in Filipino.

Foreign language skills may also be used by overseas Filipino workers when they go abroad, Valte added.

Valte also said multi-national companies look for translators to different languages.

“I was talking to some employees of a company, a multinational company and they said they employ translators for different languages,” she said.

“So let us please check the new courses offered by Tesda,” Valte added.