STAR, JobStreet team up for Job Fair

The Philippine STAR and JobStreet.com collaborate once again on the final leg of The Philippine STAR JobStreet Classifinder Job Fair. To be held today and tomorrow at the Market! Market! Trade Hall, the job fair provides a unique job fair experience to applicants and employers by combining the strengths of event participation, newspaper advertising and online recruitment technology.

"We forged our partnership with The Philippine STAR to leverage our strengths as leaders in our respective fields: JobStreet.com as the leading online job website, and The Philippine STAR as a leading daily broadsheet," said Grace Colet, country manager of JobStreet.com’s Philippine operations.

JobStreet.com will set up a resume deposit kiosk during the job fair, allowing jobseekers to create and submit their electronic resumes to participating companies instantly. It will also support the event by uploading a special web page in its popular website — www.jobstreet.com - with information regarding the job fair and links allowing off-site jobseekers to submit their resumes to participating employers. Through its award-winning SiVA technology, JobStreet.com will provide the online resume management system to participating employers. This will enable their recruitment staff to easily access resumes of applicants, screen and filter for qualified candidates and update job hopefuls on the status of their applications.

The Philippine STAR, on the other hand, published the positions being processed by the participating employers in a special supplement on the Sept. 10 issue of JobStreet Classifinder, the weekly jobs section of The Philippine STAR.

"Our goal is to use both print and online media to redirect applicants to the job fair event, providing them means to apply to their preferred employers fast, easy and cost-effectively," said Angelica Cortez, JobStreet.com’s assistant marketing manager. "During the event, applicants who applied in advance through the online and print channels can devote their time to learning more about the employers and the jobs they are eyeing."

JobStreet.com has been working together with The Philippine STAR since they launched JobStreet Classifinder in July 2005. JobStreet Classifinder contains various job opportunities, career articles and other information relevant to jobseekers.