Recruitment for crucial positions in the country’s largest bureaucracy—the Department of Education—will now be made online to democratize the recruitment process and widen the contracting net and the market reach of the government online.
The DepEd and four other government agencies partnered with online recruitment platform Kalibrr and youth group Bagumbayani to speed up the recruitment process on crucial items such as additional teachers and staff.
Kalibrr is a job-matching online platform for job seekers and companies. Its cloud-based platform enhances the way applicants find jobs and companies hire talents through its series of enhanced assessments.
Bagumbayani meanwhile, is a youth organization consisting of young civil servants promoting positive change and integrity in the government by sustainably recruiting young people into the civil service.
“To us in DepEd, better government service depends on having the right people for the right job to serve our Filipino learners in the best way we can,” Education Undersecretary for Regional Operations Rizalino Rivera said during the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement with Kalibrr and Bagumbayani.
“We look forward to maximizing our partnership with Kalibrr and Bagumbayani so we can cast our nets wider and allow for merit-based recruitment and talent sourcing that allows Filipinos anywhere in the world to be given a chance to take part in the deep and unique privilege of serving the Filipino people through government service,” Rivera added.
Meanwhile, Paul Rivera, chief executive officer and co-founder of Kalibrr, said that the new technology will not only help people get jobs, we are making an impact to the trajectory of the Philippines by helping connect inspiring and progressive public servants to government.
“Through combination of technology and the desire to bring change, we are transforming what it means to find a job in government. I will give you an example: A job seeker in Davao can now by just being on the Internet learn about and engage with the thousands of government jobs. Before Kalibrr, these jobs may have been online or may not have online and would require visit to that Department in its Metro Manila office,” Paul said.
According to the Kalibrr CEO, this partnership will “break the notion that in order for someone to land a job in government, one should be connected with someone else inside.” This partnership intends to make government jobs accessible to all online.
Four other government agencies —the Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of Finance-Bureau of Local Government Finance, Department of Transportation and Communications, and Public Private Partnership Center, also made up their recruitment processes online to speed up and rationalize the resource pool of qualified workers in government.
“I have seen the challenges in the human resource and development in the bureaucracy. Sourcing is not really a problem for us. Talent pool management is not totally practiced in the bureaucracy. Our human resource is more on personnel administration role and we need to transform it into human resource reform,” Social Welfare and Development Undersecretary Angelita Gregorio-Medel said.
The first batch of government agencies which signed on Aug. 27, 2015 and have made up their recruitment processes online are the Department of Finance, the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Department of Budget and Management, the Department of Tourism and the Civil Service Commission.