THE administration of Mayor Oscar G. Malapitan is currently holding a 16-day job fair that intends to recruit as many as 100 jobless residents of Caloocan City to work for the call center and logistics industry.
The project, called “Jobstart Caloocan 2018 Implementation,” started on May 2 and will end on May 18.
Malapitan’s office and the city’s Public Information Office, headed by Floraliza Valderama, refused to release explanation as to why the Malapitan administration’s Jobstart project is only offering a maximum of 100 slots for those who are interested to work in the call center and logistics industry when, in fact, thousands of the city residents are jobless.
They also failed to offer an answer as to why the job fair has to run for 16 days if it only offers 100 slots.
Despite the city’s economic progress, thousands are jobless, thus, a substantial number of the city’s population is very poor like other cities in Metro Manila.
The applicants are encouraged to register between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the Public Employment Service Office (Peso) located on the sixth floor of the Caloocan City Hall.
The 16-day Jobstart project of Malapitan is being facilitated by the Peso, with the cooperation of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
The Peso said “[t]he project aims to shorten the gap from school to work transition through mandatory life skills, technical skills and internship training for favorable permanent employment.”
The Peso added interested applicants should be between 18 and 24 years old, preferably a high-school graduate or college undergraduate, zero or less than one-year work experience, not enrolled in any school or employed in any company, and must be a Caloocan resident.
All interested applicants must possess said qualifications and be willing to undergo life skills and technical skills training in the contact center or logistics industries, the Peso said. Offering jobs to the city residents is one of the priority projects of Malapitan, thus, the city’s Peso holds a job fair almost every month, where many of them were “mega job fairs.”
However, Peso records showed the companies that participate in the job fairs are only recruiting a few applicants allegedly due to the latter’s failure to produce the necessary requirements.
