SAN CARLOS CITY – Some 2,000 unemployed youth were screened by a Japanese firm for jobs at the Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA) in Cavite.

The company, Wu Kong Singapore Private Ltd., expressed hope that it could recruit most of the 600 skill workers that it needs from Pangasinan.

Wu Kong is engaged in manufacture of pre-fabricated structural parts of Japanese houses for export to Japan.

Judith Dewilan, human resources officer of the company, said her firm is now engaged in mass hiring of workers to fill up positions for production, office staff, and supervisory positions.

The company just conducted job fairs in Bayambang and San Carlos City on the invitation of retired deputy director general Reynaldo Velasco and local officials.

Velasco said he helped arrange the job fair to help solve the problem of unemployment in Pangasinan.

Dewelan said that they are hiring at least 100 workers every 15 days with the following qualifications: 18 to 28 years old and at least high school graduate whose height is at least five feet and two inches.

The supervisory and office staff positions require that the applicants must be engineering graduates or of any four-year course.

This was the second time that Wu Kong recruited workers in Pangasinan. Some 100youths were hired the first time and are now working at EPZA in Cavite each receiving salaries from P13,000 to P15,000 a month.

“We decided to go back to Pangasinan because we had a good experience with the first batch of 100 workers we had recruited from here,” Dewilan said.

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