TECHNICAL vocational graduates are “very satisfied” with the training they received, a survey done by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority revealed.

The survey said that employers who hired graduates of technical vocational education and training programs found the performance of these workers to be “very satisfactory.”

The results were based on TESDA’s Study on Employment of TVET Graduates in the last five years.

“The SETG in the last five years have shown that an average 93 percent of tech-voc graduates are either ‘very satisfied’ or ‘satisfied’ with their training,” TESDA Director General Suharto Mangudadatu said.

“We regularly ask tech-voc graduates to rate their training based on entry requirements, trainers’ methodologies, tools and equipment, knowledge expertise of the trainers, learning materials, training activities, training facilities, training duration, level of knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired, and assessment method,” he said.

The survey showed that in the last five years, 52.33 percent of TVET graduates found that the skills they had acquired were very useful, while some 31 percent conveyed that they used some of the competencies they acquired from their tech-voc training.

The SETG is conducted annually to measure the relevance and effectiveness of tech-voc training programs.

This information is further validated in TESDA’s annual Employment Satisfaction Survey, which recorded employers to have rated their tech-voc graduates’ performance to be “very satisfactory” on average in the last four survey rounds.

The ESS serves as one of the monitoring and feedback mechanisms to generate inputs and comments from the industry regarding their perspective on the performance of employed TVET graduates, TVET provisions, certification and other TVET-related areas.