by Larry Lopez
TABUK, Kalinga - In celebration of Labor Day, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), in partnership with the city of Tabuk,is holding a job fair to create job opportunities to help solve the problem on unemployment. Instead of May 1, however, which falls on a Sunday, the fair will be scheduled on May 6 to have more participants.

DOLE provincial officer Avelina Manganip said 10 recruitment agencies have been invited to said job fair to be conducted at the Tabuk City hall. Most of the jobs to be offered are overseas but organizers are still working out for available recruiters of local jobs.

Manganip said that there is security for job seekers hired in job fairs because recruitment agencies participating are duly registered with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).
She explained that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) get into trouble in the land they have been "hired" because they have usually entered the country illegally. When something wrong happens to these OFWs, they hardly find assistance from government because embassy officials also find hard time tracking their whereabouts, Manganip said.

DOLE-Kalinga regularly organizes job fairs with the support of local governments that were able to send a large number of OFWs abroad. (JDP/LL – PIA CAR,Kalinga)