Davao Sur Mayor urges students to choose career close to their heart

MAGSAYSAY, Davao del Sur, Aug. 18  – Mayor Arthur Davin told students here to choose careers which are close to their heart and not by the prodding of anybody else.

“In choosing your career it is very important to make a choice what makes you happy,” Davin said during the First-ever LGU-Magsaysay Career Advocacy Summit here Monday afternoon.

He was very appreciative of high school curriculum nowadays which integrates career guidance in the schools that would be a big help in guiding students for their chosen path.

Davin said the local government is also employing mechanisms that would establish linkages with the schools and the private sector in collaborative efforts to promote career guidance advocacy program.

In fact, he added that his administration is prioritizing the scholarship grant to poor yet deserving high school students because this helps address poverty in our locality.

This year alone, there are more than a thousand high school students who have availed the scholarship program of the municipality.

Meanwhile, to dramatize the choosing of careers, seven students representing their respective schools joined the Costume Contest with Career Interpretation that would serve also as the jumping board for students to reflect into on what careers to choose in the near future.

The holding of the summit was the initiative of the Public Employment Service Office (PESO) of the local government in coordination with career advocates of different schools and cooperatives, associations and organizations. (CDIO-Magsaysay/Anthony S. Allada)