Job Fair Schedule March 2009

Here's a list of job fair schedules for March 2009 care of Bureau of Local Employment

REGION	Date of JOB FAIR		Place of JOB FAIRS	Type of JOB FAIRs	Host
	March
NCR	March 4, 2009	Wednesday	EARIST Quadrangle	Local	EARIST
	Mar.4-5, 2009	Wed.-Thurs.	Activity Center, Glorietta Mall, Ayala Center, Makati City	Local/Overseas	Philippine Franchise Association
	March 6, 2009	Friday	South Central Station, Alabang, Muntinlupa City	Local/Overseas	PESO Muntinlupa
	March 9, 2009	Monday	PESO Office	Local	PESO Muntinlupa
	Mar. 12-13, 2009	Thurs.-Fri.	San Beda College, C.M. Recto, Manila	Local	San Beda College
	March 13, 2009	Friday	South Central Station, Alabang, Muntinlupa City	Local/Overseas	PESO Muntinlupa
	March 16, 3009	Monday	PESO Office	Local	PESO Muntinlupa
	March 20, 2009	Friday	South Central Station, Alabang, Muntinlupa City	Local/Overseas	PESO Muntinlupa
	March 21, 2009	Saturday	Brgy. Escopa, QC	Local/Overseas	PESO-QC
	March 23, 2009	Monday	PESO Office	Local	PESO Muntinlupa
	March 25, 2009	Wednesday	JPL Hall Freedom	Local/Overseas	Lyceum Philippines
	March 27, 2009	Friday	South Central Station, Alabang, Muntinlupa City	Local/Overseas	PESO Muntinlupa
	March 30, 2009	Monday	PESO Office	Local	PESO Muntinlupa
Region 1	March 1, 2009	Sunday	Villa Jireh Hollistic Resort Hotel, Uyong, Labrador, Pangasinan	Local/Overseas	Villa Jireh Hollistic Resort Hotel, Uyong, Labrador, Pangasinan
	March 11. 2009	Wednesday	Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University, San Fernando City, La Union	Local/Overseas	DMMMSU-Mid La Union Campus, San Fernando City, La Union
	Mar.20-21, 2009	Fri.-Sat.	Ilocos Norte Centennial Area, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte	Local/Overseas	PESO/INVEST, City PESO, Laoag City, La Union
Region 2	Mar.19-24, 2009	Thurs.-Tues.	PESO Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya	Local/Overseas	DOLE/LGU-PESO
	March 20, 2009	Wednesday	University of St. Louis, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan	Local/Overseas	DOLE/LGU-PESO
Region 4A	March 20, 2009	Friday	Rodriguez Plaza, Rodriguez, Rizal	Local/Overseas	Rodriguez PESO
	March 26, 2009	Thursday	Ynares Plaza, Binangonan, Rizal	Local/Overseas	Binangonan PESO
	March 27, 2009	Friday	Sta. Lucia East Grand Mall, Cainta, Rizal	Local/Overseas	Cainta PESO
Region 5	Mar. 4-5, 2009	Wed.-Thurs.	Central Plaza Mall, Daet, Camarines Norte	Local/Overseas	PESO-Daet, Camarines Norte
	Mar. 11-12, 2009	Wed.-Thurs.	BU Campus, Legazpi City	Local/Overseas	Bicol University Guidance Office
	March 17, 2009	Tuesday	LCC-Activity Center, Legazpi City	Local/Overseas	PESO-Albay Province and DWIZ Radio Station
	Mar. 23-24, 2009	Mon.-Tues.	City Gymnasium, Ligao City	Local/Overseas	PESO-Ligao City
	March 28, 2009	Saturday	ACST School Campus, Sorsogon City	Local/Overseas	Asian College of Science and Technology
Region 6	March 3, 2009	Tuesday	Oton Mun.Hall Ground, Oton, Iloilo	Local/Overseas	LGU-Oton, Oton, Iloilo
Region 7	March 21, 2009	Saturday	Cebu City Sports Complex	Local	DMDP-PESO Cebu City
	March 22, 2009	Sunday	Provincial Capitol, Cebu City	Overseas	PESO Cebu Province
Region 11	March 11, 2009	Wednesday	Panabo City	Local/Overseas	PESO
	Mar. 11-12, 2009	Wed.-Thurs.	UM. Davao City	Local/Overseas	PESO
	3rd week of March		Tagum City	Local/Overseas	PESO
Region 12	March 12, 2009	Monday	USM Main Campus Gym, Kabacan, North Cotobato	Local/Overseas	PESO- University of Southern Mindanao Main, Kabacan, NC
	March 19, 2009	Monday	University of Southern Mindanao Gym, Kidapawan City	Local/Overseas	DOLE-12 PESO
	Mar. 26-27, 2009	Mon.-Tues.	KCC Mall General Santos City	Local/Overseas	DOLE 12, South Ranex College, General Santos City
	Mar. 27-28, 2009	Tues.-Wed.	KCC Mall General Santos City	Local/Overseas	DOLE 12, Golden State College, General Santos City
CAR	March (Last Week)		Municipal Hall, La Trinidad, Benguet	Local/Overseas	DOLE-CAR

Trabaho sa Turismo Fair, SM City Cebu Trade Hall - March 13-14, 2009

Department of Tourism’s 4th Trabaho sa Turismo Fair on March 13 and 14, 2009 at the SM City Cebu Trade Hall. This is supported by JobsDB.com

The Trabaho sa Turismo fair will provide job opportunities ranging from rank-and-file, junior associate to senior executive levels. Job seekers can choose to apply for many different job openings and for various top employers.

Again on March 13 & 14 2009, Cebu Trade Hall, SM CIty Cebu from 10am to 6pm -- the 4th Trabaho sa Turismo Fair

Your might want to register in JobsDB.com Philippines to learn more about the event and pre-register as a job-seeker.

Jobs - Too many or too few?

I'm getting a little confused these days with all these reports. There are several of workers particularly in the Philippines being laid off because of contracting businesses. Export companies are letting their people go, certain contractors are allegedly not paying their workers their salaries. Department of Labor and Employment has announced the possibility of six thousand more people losing their jobs over the next few months. With big shot Intel shutting down early in the year, I guess many will follow.



Then again there are these reports that the BPO industry is requiring four thousand workers a month with a total of 110,000 job opportunities to open this year! Is this for real? Or is this just media playing with everybody's heads?

There is some obvious alignment necessary here. I understand that these are primarily very different sectors. So there may be a canceling out of growth opportunities for the country as a whole as people just move from one industry to another.

But then again, that isn't easy. Workers who are let go from a particular industry will have to adjust and re-educate themselves to move to another industry. That is why we have specialization right?

"Voice positions remain the bulk of vacancies we are filling up but we are starting to get an increasing number of manpower requests for back-office positions too. These include accounting and finance practitioners, graphic designers, and bilingual candidates, to name a few,” ExcelAsia President Rita Trillo-Ugarte said.

"Individuals with export, retail, or electronics industry backgrounds will fit into most of our clients' needs," Trillo-Ugarte said. "They can handle a huge variety of accounts since some clients require IT experience, while some require sales or retail background. For example, workers from the export industry can capitalize on the work experience they gained in terms of liaising with offshore clients and supervising quality control."

I guess if you don't pick and choose then there is a lot to choose from