00:00The government celebrated its leader's special day by offering lifelines, lifesavers, and livelihood opportunities
00:06through multi-agency initiatives like a nationwide job fair that thousands of striving Filipinos took a shot at
00:12and which many hit their marks.
00:14Our Noel Talacay has more.
00:19Cedraline is a fresh graduate of criminology.
00:22She tried her luck in a job fair in Pasay City today.
00:25Little did she know, she was hired on the spot as a cashier for her first job.
00:38She said she doesn't want to be idle and unproductive while waiting for her dream job as a cop.
00:44She has been looking for work over the last two months.
00:48I'm not idle at home.
00:50Cedraline was one of the applicants in the nationwide job fair of the Department of Labor and Employment
00:57in which the Pasay City Labor Desk and Public Employment Service Office collaborated for the event.
01:04In the National Capital Region, there are four job fair sites put up by the DOLE,
01:09including one in Barangay 54 in Pasay City.
01:20Apart from job opportunities, DOLE-NCR and Pasay City Peso also provided livelihood programs to its residents.
01:34They taught them how to make crickle, fermented green papaya, and create Christmas lanterns.
01:50There are also job fair sites from Region 1 up to Region 11.
01:54It also included the Cordillera Administrative Region, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, and Caraga.
02:01The DOLE's job fair was also part of the birthday celebration of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.
02:07under its program, Handog ng Pangulo na Servisyong Sapat para sa Lahat Job Fair,
02:12wherein over 67,000 job opportunities offered to all job seekers in the country.
02:19The Department of Labor and Employment will address not only jobless Filipinos,
02:24but also those who have little, no interest in traditional employment.
02:29They will focus on upskilling manpower to prepare them in their future jobs
02:35and help them find alternative means of livelihood so that no one will be left behind.
02:42Noel Talacay from the National TV Network for New and Better Philippines.
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