With more fairs & applicants,employment agency aims high

With Pune being among the select cities in the state to get job fairs being conducted by the district employment agency,Sangade said the response had only gone up in the past three years. “This year,I hope to have five fairs and want to meet a target of 15,000 contestants; we hope another 3,000 at least to make it to various companies.”

The district has 51,163 applications registered with the employment agency,while 3,896 companies have notified job requirements.

Sangade said they were trying their best to reach out to the maximum companies. “The employment is purely on the discretion of employers.”

With the next one to be conducted on June 10-11,Sangade said the district was progressing in these job fairs just as the state government has mentioned in one of its resolutions.

A senior officer from the employment department in Mumbai said the state had seen 134 job fairs last year,which had 38,000 job vacancies and 58,000 candidates as applicants. As many as 8,200 persons got placements with nearly 800 employers. “This year,we hope to touch 150 job fairs and we will see more involvement from the private sector. They can notify us online or by e-mail and this does not put any financial burden on the company.”

The government’s employment department presently has a database of 29 lakh applications. The data available also mentions that there were 84,026 applicants who were placed with various companies in the state.