DOLE schedules 100 job fairs in last four months of 2013

Jobseekers hoping to find work before 2013 ends may avail of at least 100 job fairs in the last four months of the year, the Department of Labor and Employment said Friday.

 

DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said most of these job fairs are hosted by the Public Employment Service Offices (PESOs) in local government units and schools.

 

The job fairs include one scheduled Oct. 1 in Zamboanga City, site of clashes between government and followers of Moro National Liberation Front founding chairman Nur Misuari.

 

"If jobseekers are serious in wanting to get a job before Christmas, they should go to a DOLE job fair. More than 100 of them are coming between the months of September and December," Baldoz said.

 

DOLE said it has conducted 802 job fairs nationwide since January with its partners and the PESOs.

 

These job fairs have given work to 496,364 jobseekers, with 75,208 of them hired on the spot (HOTS) by some 15,550 companies that participated.

 

Bureau of Local Employment Director Dominique Tutay said more details about the job fairs can be found on the Phil-JobNet website, www.phil-job.net.

 

The tentative schedules for the job fairs are as follows:

 

Metro Manila:
 

 

Cordillera:
 

 

Region 1 (Ilocos):

October: Balungao, Pangasinan

 

Region 2 (Cagayan Valley):

 

Region 3 (Central Luzon):

 

Region 4-B (Mimaropa):

 

Region 6 (Western Visayas):

 

Region 7 (Central Visayas):

 

Region 8 (Eastern Visayas):

November: Cabucgayan Public Court, Biliran.

 

Region 9:

 

Region 10:

 

Region 11:

 

Region 12:

 

CARAGA:

 

—KG, GMA News