Ferliza C. Contratista
CEBU CITY, June 13
(PIA)—Around 20,000 jobs were made available to some 1100 jobseekers that
participated in the “Kalayaan” Local and Overseas Job Fair of Cebu City
held at the Cebu City Sports Center (CCSC). This highlighted the
117th Philippine Independence Day 2015 celebration of the City.
Department of Manpower
Development and Placement (DMDP) chief administrative officer Anthony
Aguhar said, they hoped to employ majority of the applicants after
processing their documents. There were 1100 applicants that trooped
on that day to apply for various positions offered.
Aguhar added that for
now DMPD has not received the final list from the 77 participating companies;
61 are local companies while the rest are overseas.
"If ever we
can't accommodate all the applicants for today, they can always visit our
office at the DMDP at Ramos Public Market 2nd floor." Aguhar said.
According to Aguhar
the entry positions for the local job includes laborers, clerks, machine
operators, technicians and service workers while the overseas agencies are
hiring construction workers, engineering and manpower services.
"We already
compiled the vacancies that we have right now, we will just issue a referral
from the Public Employment Service Office (PESO) for the late comer
applicants that were not accommodated on that day. If they have
referral from PESO they will be entertained immediately." he added.
The 'Kalayaan Job
Fair' was the second to be conducted in time for Independence Day
celebration in partnership with Sunstar Cebu and in collaboration with the
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Jobs fair helps DOLE's
employment facilitation program to the reach of the poor, unemployed and
displaced workers in the regional areas.
It also support DOLE's
anti-illegal recruitment campaign by enabling access of jobseekers to
legitimate employers/recruitment agencies. (mbcn/fcc/PIA7-Cebu/with reports
from Mariel D. Torres, Intern/ PIT AB Com)