Job seekers swarm city’s job fair
Thousands of job seekers—either newly graduates or jobless, trooped to the Red Cross Training Center in Pettit Barracks Friday for the city government initiated job fair held as an add-on activity for the 2009 Zamboanga Hermosa Festival.
Organized by the Office of the City Social Welfare and Development (CSWD), the Job Fair opened for application some 10,945 over seas job order and 328 local vacancies.
City Social Welfare Officer Francisco Barredo said 30 recruitment agencies participated in the day long job fair aimed to provide new graduates and jobless individuals the chance to explore job opportunities.
Mayor Celso Lobregat said the activity is one of the many initiatives of the present administration on job generation and poverty alleviation stressing that the local government is doing everything possible to help alleviate the plight of residents.
Barredo, who is also the Public Employment Service Officer, said the city has already assisted thousands of residents in getting employed not only locally but even abroad through the conduct of job fairs either initiated solely by the local government or in coordination with other agencies.
Meanwhile, other than the Job Fair, the city through the City Health Office will also conduct a medical mission dubbed Servicio Medical na Fiesta Pilar nutrition feeding at the CHO compound on October 8 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon.
Both the job fair and the medical mission form part of the city’s accelerated social services to help improve the plight of the residents. (Sheila Covarrubias)