DOLE organizes 200 job fairs for millions of graduating students

The Department of Labor and Employment is now organizing more than 200 job fairs across the country to help those set to graduate this school year, Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said.

“DOLE’S job fairs are held in convenient and accessible places and designed to ensure that job applicants are protected from illegal recruiters. This is one of the best ways you can match yourselves with productive opportunities, or even be hired-on-the-spot during job fairs,” she noted in a statement.

Baldoz has urged the “educated unemployed, holders of certificates of technical-vocational courses, jobless out-of-school youth, and even those who are planning to switch jobs.”

“We have more than 200 job fairs to be conducted this quarter by the Public Employment Service Office (PESO) network in cooperation with private and government sector employers,” she added.

On a daily basis, DOLE is expecting seven job fairs to be going around the country from April to June.

The biggest of these events will be simultaneous job fairs during the celebration of the 110th Labor Day on May 1 and the 114th Independence Day on June 12.

The job fairs will be supervised by DOLE’S Bureau of Local Employment and its regional offices.

The labor chief assured that employers that will participate in the event are “thoroughly screened and validated.”

As a policy, private sector-organized job fairs are conducted with DOLE’S permission and no charges or fees shall be collected from job seekers or applicants before, during, or after a job fair.

For the DOLE job fairs, no participation fees are collected from participating agencies or employers.

The job fair schedule can be checked at www.phil-job.net, the government’s official online job portal.