After the successful run of job fairs offering government posts in cooperation with Civil Service Commission, top online jobs portal JobStreet Philippines teamed up with Tech in Asia to open up 80,000 jobs in the upcoming career fair in the region, “Hire the Future” happening on March 9 to 11.
JobStreet country manager Philip Gioca said it will be a first for the entire JobStreet in the region to hold a tech jobs fair.
“Our principals have seen that the virtual career fair is really effective in bringing the right information to candidates, jobseekers and hires. So we are now embarking on a new type of virtual career fair, and this is not just happening in the Philippines but it’s happening in all countries where JobStreet, Jobs DB and Seek are operating,” he said.
About 900 hirers from Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines will participate in the simultaneous career fair.
“We are embarking this in Asia because there’s a lot of investments made in Asia to transform companies, to transform talents to be in the digital-related jobs and industries. In fact, there is $165 billion invested in Asia trying to look for ways to digitalize industries and put more tech in many Asian countries as way to the future,” Gioca said.
Filipino jobseekers can access more than 80,000 opportunities within the platform, with over 2,000 tech jobs. These jobs are being offered by more than 200 various notable local companies such as Globe, ePLDT, BDO Unibank, Cognizant, ING Bank, and more.
Gioca said the COVID-19 pandemic drastically transformed the way people work, live, and play, with many activities shifting online. This accelerated the need for digital and tech-savvy workers, driving up the demand for quality talents in IT and tech on the end of employers.
“Many years ago, we hardly see the terminologies like virtual assistant, content creators, app developers, UX or user experience designer. These are very rare. But nowadays, it’s a staple. In fact, these jobs are more in demand than the usual jobs we see. The goal of this career fair is that we are highlighting the need for technical and digital jobs because in post-pandemic these are the roles that are resilient compared to jobs with manual interventions,” he said.
The digital shift has birthed more career opportunities in IT development, JAVA, Cloud and SQL to name a few. The region-wide initiative is in line with SEEK Asia’s evolving Let’s Get ToWork campaign, which is targeted at encouraging participation and empowerment in the workforce. The portal also aims to connect jobseekers with Asia’s top companies with an accessible platform to search for jobs that are meaningful to them.
“It has always been at the core of JobStreet to provide jobs that matter. We are grateful to partner with Tech in Asia in launching Asia’s biggest career fair to bring the freshest and most in-demand tech and digital jobs to each country, especially now that job markets are ready for digital transformation,” Gioca said.
IT specialization has been one of the fastest-growing specializations that JobStreet Philippines has been hiring within the portal. In the fourth quarter of 2021, there were 28,000 jobs posted in the portal and the third biggest industry with most number of posted jobs was IT.
“This showed the importance of this specialization to our local market. But we’re not hiring only IT, we’re also looking at different specializations not limited to IT,” said JobStreet Philippines sales manager Paul Tuazon.
“Hire The Future” virtual career fair will have a mobile-first interface to enable employers and candidates to seamlessly participate virtually. Candidates and employers can access the virtual platform for on-the-spot recruitment through real-time connection via chat and online interview schedulers.
Jobseekers will have the opportunity to interact with some of the participating companies such as Food Panda, Xendit, Carousell, YouTrip, Gcash, Gojek, Grab, The Parent Inc. and Aspire through virtual office tours and masterclasses on career talks and tips that will be available on-demand via the website during the virtual career fair period.
Filipino candidates can explore more than a thousand jobs in the country with some positions available like IT helpdesk, IT developer, IP network engineer, Java developer, among others.
In preparation for the upcoming virtual career fair, JobStreet advised candidates to update their resume upon registration with relevant skills, rehearse virtual interviews and research on the position and company they are vying for.
JobStreet also aims to empower the employers from participating countries by giving them access to millions of digital and tech talent and various features in the platform.