Mandaue Peso invites job applicants

Mandaue City’s Public Employment Services Office (PESO) high school graduates who are not studying in college to come to their office for employment opportunities.

Job seekers can come to the PESO office at the back of Mandaue City Sports Complex as there are job vacancies being offered by the different companies, said PESO head Musoline Suliva.

Monday’s recruitment activity is conducted for Mitsumi company, while the rest of the weekdays will be for other companies.

In a four-day job fair organized by PESO this month in two separate venues in Parkmall and J Centre Mall, 54 persons were hired on the spot, 100 for final interview and 30 scheduled for examination.

The aim of Mandaue City government is not only to provide jobs to Mandauehanons, but also to people in the neighboring towns and cities to lessen the unemployment rate, Suliva said.

“Ni-entertain jud mi sa tanang applicants to avoid discrimination kay among aim maka trabaho sila tanan (We entertained all the applicants to avoid discrimination because our aim is to employ them all),” he said.

He said high school graduates could always apply for the production worker position.

About 600 applicants joined the four day job fair.

Suliva said majority of the applicants didn’t qualify due to job ‘mismatch,’ wherein their qualifications didn’t fit with the positions the company is looking for.

But he said their office is doing its best to assist the applicants.

Suliva said a lot of job fairs were organized by the different local government units to help job seekers.

On May 1, Mandaue PESO will be supporting the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in their job fair in SM City Cebu.

The event will be simultaneously held in SM Supermalls nationwide to celebrate Labor Day.

The SM Supermalls job fair is in line with the government’s thrust for the private sector to actively participate in nation-building by providing employment to the people.

In SM City Cebu, the Labor Day job fair will start at 10 a.m. at the Cebu Trade Hall, while SM City Consolacion will hold its job search at the atrium.

There will be booths of SM Group of Companies, SM tenants and affiliates, various local companies whose staff will conduct job interviews and on-the-spot hiring.

SM affiliates joining the job fair in SM City Consolacion will include the SM Store, SM Supermarket, Watsons, BDO, among others.

In SM City Cebu, the first 10 applicants who will be hired-on-the-spot will each receive a free lunch gift certificate from Mang Inasal.

Applicants are requested to bring an updated resume with latest ID picture, NBI clearance, police clearance, transcript of records, among others. /REPORTER JUCELL MARIE CUYOS WITH PR