More than 21,000 overseas and local job opportunities are up for grabs in a two-day online job fair next week, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said Saturday, Dec. 5.
The department’s Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) and the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) will conduct a Balik-trabaho e-jobs and online jobs fair from Dec. 10 to 11.
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III encouraged jobseekers to take advantage of the online job fair, which offers a wide range of local and overseas vacancies from more than 600 domestic companies and 16 licensed recruitment agencies.
For overseas jobs, most vacancies are for factory workers, nurses, nursing aides, and care workers. There are also vacancies for engineers, CAD operators, telecommunications rigging technicians, maintenance technicians, carpenters, foreman, laborers, and building cleaning workers.
Job vacancies for supervisor, physical fitness coach, cake decorator, cook, food server, restaurant worker, waiter, waitress, counter service staff, and service staff will also be offered.
The countries of destination are Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Germany, New Zealand, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Myanmar, Jordan, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Ghana, Micronesia, Turks and Caicos, Palau.
Among the participating agencies are Eye Quest International Manpower Services, Inc., Grand Placement General Services Corp., HRD Employment Consultants and Multi-Services Inc., Mabuhay Personnel & Management Services Inc., Power Horizon Int'l. Resources Inc., Rock Solid Manpower Network & Consultancy, Inc., Ruru Global Recruitment Services, Inc., Blue Orion Recruitment Services Corp., JBL Int'l., and September Star, Inc.
Also participating are Sky Bourne Int'l Inc., SMC Manpower Agency Philippine Company, Uniplan Overseas Employment Inc., 7107 Islands Placement & Promotions Inc., Star Express Placement Inc., and Phil C Agency.
The e-jobs for local placement, on the other hand, is being undertaken with the collaboration with digital portal Mynimo.com and the Public Employment Service Offices (PESO) across the country.
The POEA siad it is expecting additional vacancies to be posted prior to the online job fair on Dec. 10.
According to the department, career talks with employers and industry leaders will also be conducted during the two-day job fair to help job applicants find unique opportunities and job vacancies, as well as encourage a better understanding of each company’s work culture.
Bello said jobseekers must prepare the digital copies of their resume or curriculum vitae and other application requirements, such as certificate of employment for those formerly employed, diploma, and transcript of records.
Applicants may visit the POEA website at www.poea.gov.ph. to access the online job fair.
They would be asked to log-in their credentials to e-registration and click the name of the ongoing job fair. The system will then show the recommended job that matches the applicant’s preference.
If interested, applicants should click the submit button. It will automatically add in their “My Application” option. To see their application details, applicants should click the view button.
To search for other available jobs, applicants may type the position name then click the search button.
Jobseekers may only submit applications during the two-day fair, but they can verify the status of their applications even beyond Dec. 11.