Jobs Fair marks end of Higalaay Festival
About 14,900 job vacancies were up for grabs yesterday at the Trabaho, Negosyo, Kabuhayan Job Fair as a way to close the annual Higalaay Festival of Cagayan de Oro.
The Department of Labor and Employment in Northern Mindanao (DOLE-10), in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry10 (DTI-10) announced a total of 12,000 overseas job vacancies and 2,900 local vacancies, during yesterday’s job fair at the Activity Center of SM Uptown, this city.
According to DOLE, a total of 76 companies and 23 overseas agencies took part in the job fair.
Aside from the job fair, both DTI and DOLE also hosted a series of seminars for budding businessmen.
Estrella Pahalla, DoleNorthern Mindanao assistant regional director, said unlike the usual jobs fairs, yesterday’s Trabaho, Negosyo, Kabuhayan Job Fair held symposiums and forum on how to start a business, featured success stories from businessmen, and held a forum on challenges of having a business.
“We will provide inputs on basic labor policies, and information drive on health and safety for the employees,” Pahalla said.
The city has conducted a total of 2 job fairs in the onemonth span of the Higalaay Festival celebration, the first one being the job fair done in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Association of Southeast Nations (Asean) where over 5,470 jobs overseas were also offered by 22 manpower recruitment agencies.
The Trabaho, Negosyo, at Kabuhayan gathers various policy recommendations from the sectoral summit such as the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Summit, Manufacturing Summit, Philippine Construction Congress, and Information Technology-Business Process Management (IT-BPM) Summit. It aims to identify strategies to increase employment levels, improve access to employment opportunities, and address skills requirement, also gathered government, private sector, and the academe to develop a national employment program which supports the country’s development plan.