Job fairs lift curtain

　　A series of large scale job fairs aimed at offering all kinds of jobs and employment consultation were kicked off in the city on June 10, said the Chengdu Municipal Employment Bureau. A job fair especially for quake victims was held at Chengdu Human Resources Market on the morning of June 10, offering about 10,000 vacancies including mechanist, public security keeper, secretary, builder, manager, home keeper, etc. Job hunters from the quake-hit areas can find suitable vacancies in accordance with their demand and capabilities.

　　A job aid activity, organized by the Chengdu Municipal Employment Bureau, was unfurled on the morning of June 11. The activity involved three tours in Dujiangyan, Pengzhou and Chongzhou cities on June 11, 13 and 17, respectively, to publicize employment policies and aid items aimed at helping quake victims to carve out. Meanwhile, three job fairs under the frame of the activity will be held in the three cities.

　　Another important mission of the activity is to conduct survey on the situation of the employed quake victims for the next step policy-making.

　　Twenty thousand victims swarms to job fair

　　The largest post-disaster job fair especially for the victims from the quake-hit areas was held at Chengdu Human Resource Market by Chengdu Municipal Employment Bureau, on June 10. Over 10,000 vacancies offered by more than 100 enterprises attracted about 20,000 job hunters from the quake-hit Dujiangyan, Pengzhou, Chongzhou, Mianyang, and Deyang. Most of the enterprises belong to the labor-intensive industry involving shoes-making factory, machine processing factory and architectural enterprises.

　　An official of a clothing factory in Wuhou District introduced that the factory offer 30 vacancies to the quake victims. It is said that a lot of enterprises had tried their best to make vacancies especially for victims although some enterprises don’t need to recruit any workers.

　　Statistically, a total of 130 enterprises were organized to participate in the job fair, offering 14,000 vacancies which involve 49 types of work including finance, IT, catering industry, manufacturing, processing, real estate and governmental department. 2,076 job hunters have reached intent agreement with enterprises.

　　Chengdu Weekly news

　　photo by Zhang Quanneng

　　Job fair in Dujiangyan caters to quake victims

　　A large scale job fair special for the quake victims, held at the temporary human resources market in Dujiangyan City, draws a lot of victims from the quake areas. “Being different with other job fairs, the job fair, co-sponsored by Chengdu Jiangong Group and China National Real Estate Development Group Corporation Chengdu Branch, only available for victims from the quake-hit areas,” an official of Chengdu Municipal Employment Bureau said. The two companies kicked off three job fairs in Dujiangyan, Pengzhou and Chongzhou cities, respectively. The quake victims, depending on their identity identification, can find jobs.

　　Free vocational training for victims

　　“I worked as a welder but I have not any vocational accreditation. Am I eligible?” Qiu Jing, a nineteen-year-old villager of Yongshou Village of Xingfu Town in Dujiangyan City, hoped to find a job at the job fair. When he saw the company needed welders, he inquired at once.

　　“It doesn’t matter. We will offer free vocational training,” The official of the company told him that only the accredited welder has the eligibility to work for the company according to the national regulation. Qiu was very happy to know that the company would offer free vocational training to him so that he could participate in the accreditation exam. Qiu said that if he got this job, he could relieve his family’s burden, when he filled the registration form of recruitment.

　　According to Yan Kaimin, vice general manager of Chengdu Jiangong Group, it was the wish to help quake victims that inspired the company to hold such a job fair. “Therefore, if the job hunters work for us and with good health, they will get satisfactory jobs in our company, regardless of their working experience.”

　　Social insurance available

　　Yan said: “Only the victims from quake-hit areas will be recruited. Therefore, the job hunters should show their identifications.” As to those whose identity identifications have been lost, they can register their job demand, and then summit relative identifications later.

　　Besides various technical vacancies, Chengdu Jiangong Group also offers mid-or-high level vacancies including cost engineer, budget engineer, project quality supervisor, ect. In total, about thirty kinds of works are involved. The recruited workers, after three-month training, will start work under the frame of standard salary distribution system. Meanwhile, they will be involved in the system of social insurance and accumulation fund.

　　In addition, vacancies such as dustman, maintenance worker, gardener and service man were offered to quake victims by China National Real Estate Development Group Corporation Chengdu Branch.

　　Vacancies for university students available

　　Among the job hunters, some university students were focused. Zheng Shulan, to graduate from Xichang Colleage this year, has decided to contribute to the reconstruction of her havocked homeland after the earthquake.

　　Yang Liejun, a third-year student of Southwest University of Science and Technology with CET-6 certification, decided to work for his homeland without any hesitation after the earthquake. “I will use what I learnt to contribute to the revitalization of my homeland,” he said. According to Chengdu Jiangong Group, Yang’s major is civil engineering, a kind of urgently-needed talent which the company needed. It is said that over ten university students submitted resumes to Chengdu Jiangong Group and all of them will probably be recruited.