DMW to hold regular online job fair

The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said it will hold a regular online job fair to provide employment access to more Filipinos seeking work abroad.

The online job fair will be held every other Friday through the DMW website.  The registration and submission of requirement will also be done through the website, according to a "24 Oras" report by Maki Pulido and Tina Panganiban-Perez.

"Ilalapit na namin yung mga trabaho sa kanila, we will compete sa mga gumamit ng unethical and illegal recruitment schemes," DMW Secretary Susan Ople said.

"Sasalain po natin dito sa DMW para kami na rin po ang rerefer sa kaukulang recruitment agencies," DMW assistant secretary Levinson Alcantara said.

On Monday close to 2,000 applicants trooped to the DMW office in Mandaluyong City as early as 10 a.m. to try their luck in various vacancies including nurse, welder,  construction worker, accountant and restaurant staff.

Ople said the applicants were temporarily asked to line up in the building's basement to protect them from the rain.

"Willing naman kaming maghintay e kaya lang medyo mainit kasi nga maraming tao, tygaan lang po talaga," Simoena Austria said.

Job fairs were also held in Pasig, Mandaluyong and Paranaque.—LDF, GMA Integrated News