More than 2,600 local and overseas job seekers benefitted from the two-day jobs fair conducted by the city government and the Department of Labor and Employment.

Thirty local companies and 22 overseas recruitment agencies with 14,000 job vacancies participated in the jobs fair.

The two-day jobs fair is part of the activities lined up for the month-long celebration of the 102nd Charter Day anniversary  of Baguio that was earlier scheduled on Sept. 29 and 30, but was reset to Oct. 19 and 20 due to the onslaught of typhoons Pedring and Quiel.

Because of the huge number of local and overseas employment opportunities that were not filled during the recent jobs fair, the city government and the DOLE are planning on having another round of jobs fair.

Available jobs offered by local companies include call center agents, food chain crew, laborers, construction workers, and  front desk attendants while overseas jobs include nurses, engineers, call center agents, care givers, miners, among other jobs.

Mayor Mauricio Domogan said the regular conduct of jobs fair is the city government’s contribution to job seekers.

After gaining a decent education, Domogan challenged today’s youth to be productive by trying their best to find a decent job that will allow them to earn income and help reduce the unemployment rate that is currently hounding the country. He assured local residents and visitors that the conduct of jobs fair will be part of the activites lined up so that there will be a continuity in the filling up of vacancies in local and domestic companies and to allow qualified job applicants to land in decent jobs especially with the fresh graduates from higher education institutions and technical-vocational schools in the different parts of the region.