Youth employment goes online
November 13, 2020 - Manila, Philippines
The Asian Development Bank is supporting at-risk youth in securing employment through JobStart Philippines.
With funding support from ADB, the Department of Labor and Employment - DOLE and Plan International developed two digital products to help young jobseekers amid the pandemic:
- a chatbot capable of marketing and registering JobStart beneficiaries, and
- an improved, expanded online life skills training (LST) course.
The chatbot and the online LST reduce in-person transactions at the PESO offices and help increase mileage and reach of the program.
With these innovations, the successes of JobStart will be sustained under a new normal.