TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA) –In a day, thirty-eight Boholanos got hired on the spot, during the recent Bohol Job Fair 2024 organized by Capitol’s Bohol Employment and Placement Office (BEPO) and the Bohol Island State University (BISU) at the Bohol Cultural center May 9, 2024.
“Of the nearly 300 who came to join the job placement activity, 21 males and 17 females were lucky to get hired right away, most of them fresh graduates or those who couldn’t land jobs due to the recession brought about by the pandemic,” shared Bohol Employment and Placement Office head Maria Vilma Yorong, during the fair.
Attended by 13 local companies and 6 overseas agencies, Bohol Job Fair 2024, had pre-registrations courtesy of the BEPO network of municipal Public Employment Service Offices (PESO), but there were still some walk-in applicants who have to be attended to.
The job fair, a regular BEPO semestral programming, played on the forecast upswing in employment with Bohol hosting now a wide array of investments including two giant business process management companies, SM and PureGold super stores and a host of hotels and resort service crew in newly built establishments in Bohol’s resort towns.
Supported by the Department of Labor and Employment, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, Department of Migrant Workers, Social Security System, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, Home Development Mutual Fund (PAG-IBIG Fund), the Job Fair is one key point in Governor Erico Aristotle Aumentado Administration’s strategic change agenda in job generation and employment.
Charlyn Mae Dagoldol, 24 years old from Biabas Ubay, is finishing her Bachelors in Entrepreneurship at the nearby state college, was among those who got hired as accounting staff for the Nuat Thai Massage clinics.
“I am truly excited,” she said as she never imagined she could be hired, considering that she is still on her job training until next week.
A daughter of a farmer, Charlyn along with two more siblings are now living from what they can get from the farm.
When her father died, she felt she needs, along with an elder brother working in Manila, to help for her sister’s education.
My sister Zhyra Mae is going to college next year, and I hope I can help send her to school.
Meanwhile, 24 years old Restituto Asilo III of Lindaville Subdivision here is happy he finally got a job that aligns with his profession.
Already working but temporarily at the City Hall, Resty, a graduate as an Electrical Technician from the BISU main was among the graduates who could not get a good on the job training due to the pandemic.
I feel I was not able to fully experience the full spectrum of my profession then, Asilo, who applied with his father whose overseas contract has expired.
Asilo is now hired as Electrical Technician at Alturas Group of Companies.
Gov Aumentado, over the success of the Job Fair said he would continue to organize similar activities, which could contribute to the over-all economy of Bohol.
“Employment has always been a major concern of administrations,” Aumentado pointed out, noting that Bohol has been regarded as a largely out-migrating province, and the best minds going out has been a nagging concern.
In the recent Holy Name University Bohol Poll 2024, in a survey done between March 23 to April 23, the unemployment rate for the whole of Bohol is 8 percent. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
