Job expo to offer 2,500 vacancies

Job expo to offer 2,500 vacancies

JAKARTA: Over 2,500 vacancies from dozens of national and
multinational companies will be offered during the ninth Job Expo
on Jan. 27 and Jan. 28 at the Wisma Serbaguna in Senayan, Central
Jakarta.

The expo, entitled Career 2004, is expected to host some
20,000 professionals with a variety of educational backgrounds.

"The vacancies offered will vary from entry level, with a
monthly salary of Rp 1 million (US$117.65), to the executive
level, where monthly salaries can exceed Rp 40 million, for
professionals with a minimum of at least a high school diploma or
one year of work experience," said chief organizer Donnie
Iriawan, in a press release.

It will be supported by the international online career
website JobsDB.com and the Ministry of Manpower and
Transmigration. The organizers said it would host more companies
than the last one held in July.

Asia Expo held a similar two-day exhibition last July that
brought together nearly 15,000 job-seekers at the Kartika Chandra
hotel in South Jakarta. The number of job-seekers was much
greater than the capacity of the venue, causing serious crowd-
control issues that disrupted traffic along Jl. Jend. Gatot
Subroto and verged on becoming unruly. -- JP