Over 5K join tourism job fair

OVER 5,000 job applicants were accommodated on the first day of the three-day job fair jointly organized in three cities by the Departments of Labor and Employment and Tourism.

Dubbed as “Trabaho, Turismo, Asenso Philippine Tourism Job Fair,” 3,074 applicants were accommodated in Cebu while the Manila and Davao events took in 1,388 and 714 applicants, respectively, last Thursday.

The job fair organized for tourism and allied industries will go on until Saturday in Manila.

In a statement, over 1,000 walk-in applicants were accommodated while 80 were hiredon-the-spot.

“We provide you with opportunities to continue to be our partners as we recover from all the challenges that we have faced. Everything that we are doing in the Department of Tourism is to serve the goal of ensuring that we put our tourism stakeholders front and center of our agenda,” Tourism Secretary Christina GarciaFrasco said.

Garcia-Frasco, a former town mayor in Cebu, emphasized the importance of the country’s tourism industry workforce, stating that tourism workers and stakeholders are the best representation of Filipino kindness, as they have made the country’s brand of hospitality known all over the world through hard work, industry, resilience and graciousness.

“We hope that the Philippine Tourism Job Fair was able to guide you [job seekers] to appropriate employment goals,” said DoLE Undersecretary for Employment and Human Resource Development Cluster Carmela Torres.

Job-seekers who attended the Manila leg were given access to a one-stop shop for pre-employment procedures such as the processing of PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, NBI clearance and SSS number applications.