DTI-7 exec is DTI Employee of the Year
During an employee performance recognition ceremony recently held in Manila, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Regional Director Asteria Caberte bagged the 2013 DTI Employee of the Year (Executive Level) over 9 other finalists.
In its System on Performance, Rewards and Incentives (SPRInts) Awards, Caberte and another DTI staff were shortlisted as finalists of the DTI SPRInts Awards and the regional director bagged the coveted award for year 2013.
Caberte, formerly DTI Bohol Provincial Director, assumed the Regional Officer after a well-deserved promotion years back. Like her notably well-performing stint in Bohol, her regional coverage allowed her a much greater responsibility, which she adeptly fitted herself in.
Caberte was cited for her excellent response to typhoon Yolanda by bringing Diskwento Caravan to disasterhit areas in Bohol and in Leyte, during the earthquake and typhoon Yolanda.
Herself, a calamity victim, Caberte readily organized a DTI team to assess damage to the business environment in Bohol and in Leyte and, setting aside her damaged home, she led a discounts caravan to even up the playing field and monitor compliance of the consumer laws, to make basic commodities accessible to all.
“Her vigor and commitment in doing her job, belie the hardships she had gone through a few weeks after the storm,” and the earthquake which damaged her home,” her nomination paper to the SPRInts Awards stated.
Moreover, her leadership has made DTI-Central Visayas among the best performing regional agencies in the country based on the over-all agency performance, DTI sources also revealed.
Caberte’s stint is rare in as much as the DTI, an agency comprised of over 2,000 employees, has shortlisted some 56 employees and executives with the best performance and behavioral ratings by an internal evaluation team.
The selection was based on the 9 core values of the trade industry agency, according to the same DTI sources.
A third party team composed of the Civil Service Commission, ISA, Career Service Executive Board, Commission on Audit and MetroBank Foundation evaluated the finalists, DTI said.