“This graduation will mark another turning point in the Guam-Chuuk relations,” said Mike Ghiglione, executive director of CME, “as we graduate another group of Chuuk’s best and brightest.”
As of today, 58 percent of the graduating trainees have obtained full-time employment on Guam, he added.
“We are working very hard every single day to ensure that all 24 trainees are in full-time jobs before graduation day,” said Ghiglione. “Limus Setik, our most recent placement, “is starting with a salary of $15 per hour!”
In the upcoming months, CME hopes to be offering two new training programs: a 90-day certified nursing assistant program, open for 12 trainees, both women and men are encouraged to apply; and a 90-day automotive technology mechanics program, also open to 12 trainees. Both new programs are scheduled to begin on May 2.
Ghiglione said not one of their trainees had been deported or arrested, nor do any of them had any kind of police record on Guam.
“They are all doing well,” said Ghiglione. “I am bursting with pride for all of the 24 Chuuk trainees.”
FSM Department of Education Secretary Casiano Shoniber and Assistant Secretary for Vocational Education Wilson Kephas were scheduled to visit the CME campus and meet with some of the trainees.
CME is dedicated to training and placing local workers into full-time paying jobs made possible because of the Guam military buildup.
To date, CME, a private non-profit workforce development company, will have successfully placed 214 underserved residents from throughout Micronesia and Guam into full-time employment.
