Some 400,000 people visited the four-day Career 2009 & Education 2009 exhibition at Suntec Singapore.
The fair focused on not just jobs but also education and skills upgrading, but it was clear that the majority there were more keen on getting a job.
Each day, four to five thousand people were aiming for one of the 800 vacancies at the upcoming Resorts World Sentosa.
But while the booth was the hot favourite at the fair, other recruiters were also having large number of applicants, such as this childcare company.
HR executive from Knowledge Universe, Wirma Asad, said: "We have 30 positions open and so far we have about 100 people signing up for the programme. It doesn't matter whether they have the experience or not, as long as they have the minimum five GCE ‘O’ Levels, with a B4 in English."
But some jobs, mainly those in healthcare and social work, require specific expertise, and these organisations were finding it tough to fill the vacancies.
Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society, Agatha Tan Mui Neo, said: "So far, no social workers (had applied), I must admit that. Only one from the US applied and he's a Caucasian. For the occupational therapists, zero (application). For the nurses, we seemed to have some potential but there were only about three applications and we're offering about six positions."
The search for health professionals would no doubt carry on, as authorities expected the healthcare sector to offer more than 10,000 vacancies by 2012.
- Channel News Asia
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