Querétaro, Qro. To promote capacity building and certification, the Querétaro Chamber of Commerce created the Professional Training Development Center.
It will focus on certifications, skills y skillsissued by the National Council for Standardization and Certification of Labor Skills (Know).
At the moment, only between 1 and 2% of the chamber’s members have some certification of this type, said the president of the Querétaro Chamber of Commerce, Lorena Muñoz Altamira.
Therefore, the majority of partners are likely to participate in this project. The businesswoman set the goal of issuing 10,000 certifications during the year 2025.
For this initiative, the business organization partnered with the Desarrollo Valúate center and offer more than 1,800 certifications.
Lorena Muñoz explained that the center is one of the five axes that she proposed at the beginning of her administration; Since 2019, the chamber has been a certifying body through Know, to accredit people’s skills and competencies, now it is launched as a training center.
The center will have a wide range of customer service and other areas; even in citizen services, a branch aimed at the public sector.
“The people who are at the counter serving Queretaro residents can certify through Saber, even very specific skills such as handling forklifts, some application of a specific welding, that this type of service is also dedicated to the industrial part.”
The members of the chamber, he explained, demand training in sales, customer service, inventory control, forklift management, etc.; There will be options for restaurants, hotels, agriculture, livestock, forestry, hunting and fishing, commerce and manufacturing industry, extractive industry, electricity, governments, construction, and various services.
According to the businesswoman, a person with certification receives on average double the minimum wage.
The vice president of Commerce in the chamber, René Loya Poletti, explained that the service providers They will be able to prove their skills to transnational companies that arrive in the state and demand local supplies.
“The basic thing this company is going to say is: show me that you are suitable to be an electrician, plumber, carpenter. (…) We are going to have the certifications that are endorsed by the SEP so that they can demonstrate that they have the capabilities and are certified,” he noted.
The Chamber’s Membership Coordinator, Gabriel Rodríguez, stated that they will also be able to create new training avenues, which opens opportunities to identify the development of skills in the industry or other sectors.
The director of Desarrollo Valúate, Arturo Entrambasaguas, explained that they will have certifications for various jobs and the development of CEO profiles; as well as in branches related to the implementation of the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC).
“There is a very important issue coming up that we are going to be focused on; To belong to the T-MEC, many companies, a lot of commerce, will want to enter this area and the creation of mixed commissions is mandatory. We as a chamber already have the training to create mixed commissions and the official certification to be able to belong to the T-MEC,” he noted.
Businesses will join security strategies
Regarding the measures that local authorities will implement, after the violent events of recent days, the president of the Querétaro Chamber of Commerce declared that the sector will join these strategies.
The nightclubs that are part of the chamber, he said, will abide by the provision of cutting closing hours to 1:30 a.m. He noted that businessmen have shown willingness to acquire specialized cameras and even adopt measures such as the use of metal detector arcs.
Lorena Muñoz also urged the sector to corroborate that the private security elements they hire are certified.
