Mabilog invites jobless to come to Job Fair tomorrow
Iloilo City Vice Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog looks forward to another successful celebration of Labor Day tomorrow, May 1, 2010, through a day-long Job Fair at the SM City event center, organized by his office and the Iloilo Business Club.
“Representatives of 78 national and local companies,” Mabilog enthused, “will be around to accept applicants. Ours is a growing city with sufficient skilled workers to fill a thousand or more job vacancies. The job providers include banks, product manufacturers, contractors, hotels, restaurants and many more. As in the past, we expect at least 3,000 job seekers to try their luck.”
Tomorrow’s activity will be Mabilog’s 8th job fair. Started in 2004 when the vice-mayor was new councilor and chair of the labor-and-employment committee, the job-generating project enjoys the regular collaboration of the Department of Labor and Employment, the Public Employment Service Office, ABS-CBN TV and SM City-Iloilo.
“I have personally talked to many successful applicants in the past six years,” the vice-mayor told this newspaper yesterday. “They are now gainfully employed and are looking forward to seeing their brothers, sisters, relatives and friends find jobs through the job fair, too.”
Among the big employers/participants in tomorrow’s job fair are Coca-Cola, Isuzu, Banco de Oro, Valiant Bank, F. Gurrea Construction, Waffle Time, Love Feeds, International Builders Corporation, F&E Enterprises, AM Builders, Jester Food Products, Medicus, Hotel del Rio, Days Hotel, Sarabia Manor, Philippine Foremost Milling Corp., Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taytay sa Kauswagan, Watson’s and SM Supermart, among others.
Mabilog said that the vacancies available are mostly for graduates of both professional and vocational courses, such as engineers, accountants, bookkeepers, sales persons, graphic artists, mechanics, bartenders, food technologists, web developers and secretaries.
Even non-graduates and out-of-school youth with experience – such as account executives, drivers, heavy equipment operators and warehousemen – are welcome.
Incidentally, Vice-Mayor Mabilog has likewise empowered out-of-school youth to be employable through computer literacy programs in partnership with Microsoft Philippines and through short courses in reflexology, sewing and food preservation.
Meanwhile, transport groups under the Ilonggo Transport Solidarity Forum (ITSF) yesterday reiterated their support for the election of Vice-Mayor Jed Mabilog for mayor and Mayor Jerry Treñas for congressman come election day on May 10, 2010. The ITSF comprises four big alliances of transport organizations with thousands of members, namely the Iloilo City Alliance of Drivers Associations (ICADA), Alliance of Panay Taxi Operators and Drivers Association (APTODA), North-South Baluarte Taxi Drivers Association (Nosobatada), Federation of Iloilo City Tricycle Drivers and Operators Association (FITODA) and the Ilonggo Trisikad Drivers Alliance (ITDA).
ICADA President Nick Dalisay said that all 16 city-loop drivers/operators associations with more than a thousand members had formally endorsed Mabilog for mayor and Treñas for congressman in a massive gathering at the Jaro Plaza gym last April 21 because “they have the interest of the transport sector in mind. They have always demonstrated sincerity in solving transport problems during dialogues with us.”
Mabilog and Treñas have actively supported projects aimed at augmenting transport personnel’s income. They have supported their cooperatives and training centers.
