Civil service eligibility application for data encoders ends today

MANILA, Philippines - Passers of the Data Encoder Course who have been granted skills certificates by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) have only until today (Dec. 30)) to apply for civil service eligibility.

The Civil Service Commission (CSC) said those who underwent the training program and want to work in government has to apply now because the agency will stop granting eligibility for them next year.

The Data Encoder eligibility is granted to qualified individuals under the Skills Certificate Equivalency Program of the CSC and TESDA.

Under the same, the skills certificate issued by TESDA shall be the basis for the grant of civil service eligibility to qualify an appointee for permanent or promotional appointment to positions for which the test is given and to functionally related positions.

The CSC however clarified that while it will stop granting eligibility by the end of the year, the use and appropriateness of the Data Encoder as a civil service eligibility for specific information technology (IT) positions in government shall continue beyond 2010 and will not prescribe.

It announced that the Data Encoder eligibility shall still be appropriate for the IT positions of Computer Operator; Computer Operator I to IV; Data Encoder; Data Encoder I to IV; Senior Data Encoder; Data Encoder-Controller; Data Controller/Encoder; Senior Data Encoder-Controller; Supervising Data Encoder-Controller; Data Controller; Data Controller I to IV; Supervising Data Controller; Senior Computer Operator; Senior Computer Operator I to III; Data Entry Machine Operator I to IV; Accounting Machine Operator I to III; and Auxiliary Machine Operator I to IV.