ABOUT 2,000 people will show up from now till Sunday to network with employers and go for interviews, in hopes of landing one of 3,000 jobs at ION Orchard.
The retail-cum-superluxe residential complex launched one of the final stages of its massive job hunt on Thursday at Raffles City, in partnership with the Employment and Employability Institute (e2i) and the Workforce Development Agency.
e2i and the WDA took charge of pre-screening the 5,000 applicants, and sent them for training such as service booster courses before the jobseekers met employers on Friday.
Twenty-three brands such as Bebe, TopShop and Cold Storage had set up booths to interview prospective employees as well as promote their companies to the jobseekers.
At this round of sessions, there are 1,500 jobs to fill, mostly frontline or senior positions.
The other 1,500 jobs will be offered through ongoing e2i job fairs that are held twice a month.
Club 21's human resource director Rina Ong said the unique job-matching fair would save her time and effort from the usual hiring process. 'Usually, you have people looking for jobs, including a whole barrage of people just trying their luck,' she said. 'This is much more concentrated and focused.'
Such a screening-cum-job fair method seems to be working well for e2i, said its chairman Ong Ye Kung. He described how in the past, it had organised mass job fairs, but those became a huge 'pasar malam' (night market) and were too noisy and difficult for employers to find proper staff.
It had also tried small boutique events, but too few people found jobs through them, despite the amount of work put in.
This screening-then-interview method was a 'good balance', he said.
- The Straits Times
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