The Department of Labor and Employment is developing a skills registry system that will capture grassroots skills and employers' data that will make it easier for the government to assess the demand situation for skills in the labor market and enable it to make relevant policy for employment facilitation and generation, a press release from DOLE said.

The envisioned skills registry has been piloted in select regions, and the first wave of implementation will kick off next month.

Once set into place, the National Skills Registry System, or SRS, will combine the existing skills registries of the Phil-Job Net and the Public Employment Service Office, the press release said.

The SRS is a technology-based (computerized) system which captures and updates in a Register skills and qualifications of interested workers.

The system also lists down establishments and their job vacancies in the country for quick access by jobseekers and employers, both local and foreign.

Unlike the existing skills registries of the PHIL-JobNet and the PESOs, and the SRS is 'live' and dynamic because it will be regularly updated and tied up to the relevant educational background of jobseekers and needs of the employers.

It combines the functions of the existing Comprehensive National Manpower Registry of Skills as a labor market information facility and the PHIL-JobNet as a job matching tool, the press release further said.

The DOLE said that the SRS will empower the PESOs nationwide enrich their labor market information gathering skills; enable universities and colleges make correct decisions on courses and curriculum to offer, and help students make correct career choices based on labor market demand.

Ultimately, the SRS will serve as a potent toll that would help solve the country's perennial problem of jobs mismatch, the DOLE press release added.*

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