After staging 55 job fairs in 12 regions last July, the Department of Labor and Employment has planned 59 job fairs nationwide this month.
DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the job fairs seek to provide year-round opportunities for job seekers and help employers find qualified workers. "We have 59 job fairs coming this month, or an average of two per day. These job fairs will be conducted in 13 regions so our job seekers have to watch out for these fairs," said Baldoz.
She said August's job fairs will include mega-job fairs, city and municipal fairs, in-house, mini, and barangay job fairs to be conducted in cooperation with local government units (LGUs) and the public employment service offices (PESOs) supervised by the Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) and DOLE regional offices.
The year-round job fair schedules and venues are already posted online on the government's www.phil-job.net portal, she added. But she maintained the best way for an applicant to land a job in these fairs is to "first acquire the appropriate qualification or skills to enable him or her to match the available opportunities provided by employers." The schedules are as follows:
Metro Manila
- August 2: PESO Office, Malabon City Hall
- August 3: LR PESO, Marikina City; South Station II, Muntinlupa City
- August 4: various barangays, Muntinlupa City
- August 6: LR PESO, Marikina City; PESO Office, Taguig City Hall
- August 8: Main Plaza Rizal, Caloocan City
- August 10: LR PESO, Marikina City; South Station II, Muntinlupa City; Brgy. Central Signal, Taguig City
- August 11: different barangays, Muntinlupa City
- August 13: LR PESO, Marikina City; PESO Office, Taguig City Hall
- August 15: Caloocan City Hall
- August 16: Ampitheater, Malabon City; PESO Office, Pasay City
- August 17: LR PESO, Marikina City; Quezon City Hall; South Station II, Muntinlupa City; Las Piñas City Hall; Brgy. Bagumbayan, Taguig City
- August 18: Various barangays, Muntinlupa City
- August 20: LR PESO, Marikina City; PESO Office, Taguig City Hall
- August 22: Brgy. Central Signal, Taguig City
- August 23: PESO Office, Malabon City Hall
- August 24: LR PESO, Marikina City; South Station II, Muntinlupa City
- August 25: different barangays, Muntinlupa City
- August 27: LR PESO, Marikina City; PESO Office, Taguig City Hall
- August 29: Brgy. New Lower, Bicutan, Taguig City
- August 30: Ampitheater, Malabon City; PESO Office, Pasay City Hall
- August 31: LR PESO, Marikina City; South Station II, Muntinlupa City
Region 2 (Cagayan Valley)
- August 2012: Lal-lo, Cagayan; Camalaniugan, Cagayan; and Sta. Teresita, Cagayan
Region 3 (Central Luzon)
- August: PESO Office, City Hall, Tarlac City; Guimba Gym, Guimba, Nueva Ecija
- August 10: Pagasa Sports Complex, FE Marcos, San Jose City
- August 28: Old Capitol Compound, Cabanatuan City
Region 4A (Southern Luzon)
- August, third week: Angono Gymnasium, Angono, Rizal
- August (tentative): Tanay Plaza, Tanay, Rizal
- August: City Hall, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro
Region 6 (Western Visayas)
- August: PESO Office, City Hall, Iloilo City
Region 7 (Central Visayas)
- August 4: Panfil B. Fraso Sports Complex-Kai Gym, Liloan, Cebu
- August 25: Sports Complex, Mandaue City
- August 26: Cebu International Convention Center, Mandaue City
Region 8 (Eastern Visayas)
- August 24: LGU-Abuyog, Leyte
Region 11
- August 7: Lupon, Davao Oriental
- August 9: New Bataan, Comval Province
- August 31: Monkayo, Comval Province
Region 12
- August: Municipal Gymnasium of Kabacan, North Cotabato
Region 13
- August 30: City Gym, Surigao City
Caraga
- August 1 to 2: Butuan City Hall, Butuan City
