Job fairs
GOVERNMENT efforts to address unemployment are paying good dividends.
In fact, the number of employed Filipinos rose to 48.49 million in January 2025 from only 45.90 in January 2024.
This, despite the fact that many businesses not only in the Philippines but elsewhere find it hard to “survive.”
But these business enterprises, particularly the small ones, are trying very hard to hold on to their employees.
These establishments are hopeful of “better times” ahead.
This year, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), headed by Secretary Bienvenido “Benny” Laguesma, has lined up job fairs across the country.
These job fairs, numbering more than 70, offer thousands of local and overseas jobs to jobless and underemployed Filipinos.
The holding of job fairs, with the help of the private sector, is part of the government’s multi-pronged employment program.
The program is aimed at meeting the employment needs of the country’s burgeoning population.
In Metropolitan Manila (MM), the labor department held three job fairs in the first two weeks of March.
Laguesma, one of the so-called “bright boys” of the late Labor Secretary Blas F. Ople, vowed to strengthen the government’s employment program.
And he said “DOLE will continue to promote the highly-effective “Trabaho sa Bagong Pilipinas” program.
This, it will do by conducting monthly or bi-weekly job fairs in the country’s 16 regions, including the National Capital Region.
