MICHAEL MEDINA
Editor-in-chief
OZAMIZ CITY--A newly slated seminar on good housekeeping focusing meal preparation, control of house property, ensuring its maintenance and proper use and appearance and managing other domestic concerns will be held, Feb. 24-25, this city at the Brgy. Aguada Hall.
Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) Northern Mindanao regional governor Elvira Tan said the two-day seminar will tackle on comprehensive housekeeping and is open to all interested househelps and prospective domestic helpers who are applying jobs abroad.
A housekeeper is a person responsible for the cleaning and maintenance of premises, usually residential.
Abroad, the said work is being classified into three: industrial–those responsible for the cleaning of institutional premises; servant—those in the maintenance of the interior of a residence; and hotel— a department that supervises the maids responsible for cleaning the rooms of a hotel or motel.
The comprehensive housekeeping seminar, Tan added, is being initiated by the Ozamiz City Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation Inc. (Ozamiz Chamber), in collaboration with the local government and Department of Tourism-10.
The first among the four designed trainings to be conducted this year by the Ozamiz Chamber, the said seminar will introduce participants to housekeeping programs and give them the necessary guidelines in workplace organization.
This qualification is packaged from the competency map of the Tourism Sector (Hotels and Restaurants) as key speakers from the DOT regional office will conduct the training, divided into lectures and applications.
Competencies to be learned in the seminar will range from managing workplace diversity, finances within a budget to quality customer service, providing safety of VIPs
Tan added that they initiated this kind of activity for the benefit of those wanting to get employed as domestic helpers abroad and even as maids in the locality.
For his part, Ozamiz Chamber President Dominador Elemento told media in a press conference that interested participants need to pay a registration fee of P100 for chamber members and P150 for non-chamber members.
“Graduates of this seminar will be able to get priority in employment wherever one applies for work here and abroad beacuse of the competencies he or she learned,” he said.
Meanwhile, DOT-10 Regional Director Catalino Chan III will be present during the closing activity and will hand over the certificates to the graduates.
Other coming seminars set to be conducted within this year are waitering, front desk operations and bartending.
Those interested are requested to contact the Ozamiz Chamber at Telefax (088)521-1327, Text 09283101083 or visit their office at Rural Bank Bldg., Bonifacio Ext., Aguada, this city.