1,500 jobs offered in Pangasinan town job fair

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MALASIQUI, Pangasinan, June 17 (PNA) -— Some 1,500 vacant local and overseas jobs were offered to qualified jopb-seekers in a job fair held here today.

Arnel Montemayor, provincial employment services office (PESO) manager in Malasiqui town, said more than 500 applicants were interviewed and screened by 15 local companies, five overseas recruitment agencies and one security agency that took part in the job fair.

The local companies such as Coca-Cola, RC Cola and Pacific Star among others offered different vacancies while the recruitment agencies looked for drivers, gardeners, domestic helpers, housekeepers and caregivers for Singapore, Hongkong and Thailand.

“Applicants will be hired on the spot just like in the previous job fair we conducted here,” said Montemayor.

He said this is the second time this year the PESO invited different companies to hold a job fair in the town.

Within six years, at least 50 residents here were employed overseas and more than 300 in the local job market through job fairs sponsored by the municipal government.

“We are doing this as mandated by our mayor and the rest of the officials in line with their advocacy of a more progressive Malasiqui,” said ontemayor.