The Commission on Audit (COA) thru the Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) has launched programs for Campus Recruitment I Career Fair as part of the initiatives under "Strengthen Capacity and Capability" of the COA Strategic Plan for 2016- 2022 which aims to intensify the recruitment process for potential recruits in the fields of Accounting/auditing, legal, information technology and other fields of discipline.

The HRMO, under the -leadership of Director Noel B. Clemente, received an overwhelming response from the country's leading universities and organizations after having a persistent communication with them on possible partnership. Beginning mid of 2016, the team led by Ms. Imelda V. Clave, Officer-In-Charge, Human Resource Policy Studies and Standard Services, already toured several prominent universities. It kicked off at the San Beda College, Manila on October 2016 with over a hundred attendees and University of Sto. Tomas with about nine hundred (900) attendees. Both schools have participants from other universities and colleges within the Metro Manila. It was followed by a 3-day job fair activity at the Ateneo De Manila University - School of Law on January 2017 where Director Carmelita T. Sanchez, Legal Services Sector, shared her knowledge about the legal profession and benefits from working in the Commission.

Aside from collaborating with learning institutions, the HRMO also participated in two Career Fairs conducted by the Professional Regulation Commission which coincided with the Oath Taking Ceremonies of nearly 5,000 new CPA board passers.

Among the entities from private and public sectors present in said activities are Bureau of Treasury, Land Bank, Development Bank of the Philippines, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Office of the President, Robinsons Land, JGS Petrochemicals, Malayan Insurance, SM Prime Holdings, Accenture, Grant Thornton International Ltd., Primer Group of Companies, Empire East Holdings, well-known law offices and more than 18 other institutions.

Additionally, the HRMO team also visited Review Centers to invite high potential CPAs/Lawyers to consider joining the COA workforce.

These Campus Recruitment activities are a step up of the campaign to introduce COA to the new talents and drum up interest to make it one of the top prospective employers among the applicants.

Recently, the COA Chairperson has approved a proposed collaboration with the Technological Institute of the Philippines regarding Career Development activities. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Director Noel B. Clemente, representing the COA Chairperson and Dr. Cynthia C. Llanes, Vice President for Academic Affairs, TIP on March 24, 2017. Thereafter, COA vied with other giant firms after it graced the invitation of TIP to participate in its Manila campus's career fair to attract hundreds of graduating students from the fields of accounting and engineering.

At present, the HRMO is continuously working on other possible events with the University of the Philippines - Diliman and a potential alliance with Jobstreet in the coming months.