00:00Fifteen headhunters are staffing slash manpower agencies and 25,000 paying work opportunities
00:06went up for grabs in a job fair sponsored by the Department of Migrant Workers on the
00:10occasion of Philippine-Japanese Friendship Week.
00:13Even better, qualified Filipinos who pass the application face a need not worry of the
00:18Nipongo language barrier with our headhunters' assurances to pick up the tab for their Japanese
00:23lessons as our Noel Talakay lays out in this report.
00:29Find a job where your love is.
00:32This is the motivation of Romilyn for rushing to a job fair exclusively for Japan.
00:38She went to the venue as early as 7 in the morning today just to be the first in line.
00:44Her boyfriend is half Japanese and Filipino living in Japan.
00:48She said she met her boyfriend on Facebook one year ago.
01:04Her boyfriend has been teaching her the Japanese language.
01:08She had already gave her boyfriend a heads up that she will join the job fair for Japan.
01:15On the other hand, Karl, a 25-year-old person with disability and a graduate of information
01:29technology joined the job fair despite his situation.
01:32He said it's better working in Japan because discrimination is nearly non-existent.
01:37Karl and Romilyn are just among the thousand job seekers who want to work in Japan.
01:56The event was part of the Philippines-Japan Friendship Week spearheaded by the Department
02:02of Migrant Workers or DMW.
02:0525,000 job orders were up for grabs with 15 manpower agencies participating in the
02:12event.
02:26She says the Japanese language is not an obstacle in applying for jobs in Japan.
02:32If her job application is not accepted, even with no Japanese language proficiency, the
02:37show for the manpower agency will provide lessons in Nihongo for free.
02:54Nihei Daisuke from Embassy of Japan Minister of Economic Affairs and some other Japan officials
03:01graced the job fair.
03:03According to the latest record of the DMW, more than 10,200 Filipinos are registered
03:09OFWs in Japan.
03:12With these new opportunities in Japan, the Migrant Workers Department is worried on the
03:17proliferation of scammers and illegal recruiters anew.
03:21The agency said job seekers can check DMW's website for the legitimate manpower agencies
03:29and job orders.
03:30Noel Talacay from the National TV Network for New and Better Philippines.
