20,000 being recruited by South Korean shipbuilding firm

Some 20,000 local male residents are being recruited here by business titan Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. of South Korea for its shipbuilding and ship repair projects.

Former vice Gov. Ramon Lacbain II announced here last Tuesday that Gov. Amor Deloso has created Task Force Hanjin (TFH) to fill up the company's labor requirements.

Deloso said the task force chaired by Lacbain is assisting the Korean firm in recruiting job applicants from this province and near by provinces for the multi-billion dollar shipbuilding projects of Hanjin in Zambales and South Korea.Lacban said that his task force is going around the province in recruiting applicants from their respective places to save them from traveling and spending transportation expenses to Subic Bay Freeport.

At least 700 applicants have been interviewed by the task force at the provicial capitol here and close to 1,000 others in nearby towns for training at the Skills Development Center of Hanjin at Subic Bay Industrial Park inside the Freeport.

Several applicants said that they have been trying their best efforts to apply at the Korean company but said that they have yet to be interviewed.They added that Task Force Hanjin have assisted them in applying and most of them have been called for the skills training preparatory to their employment at the Korean firm, according to Byran Bautista, one of those considered for recruitment.According to Lacbain, the Korean company's top preference are Filipino workers because of their job skills and capability to speak English.Lacbain said that his task force would continue interviewing applicants at the provinmcial capitol building and other nearby towns and Olongapo City.

He added those already interviewed are advised to start submitting their bio-data and other necessary documents at the task force offices at the capitol building in Iba and Subic town.Hanjin earlier has been involved in big shipbuilding contracts with ship building companies in Germany, France, India and Turkey for at least eight big container carriers worth at least US $ 2.2 billion).

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