HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, mostly young men, showed up at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre today to register for jobs in Canada.
From early in the morning they gathered to fill out applications and find out about the various jobs being offered by Canadian recruiting agency Diamond Global.
Jobs are available in a number of industries including hospitality, food preparation and food service, construction, manufacturing and auto mechanics.
Some people attending said they were employed but were looking for better opportunities while others said they had been unemployed for as long as two years.
Vice-president of Diamond Global Benjamin Guth said they were excited about the numbers they had seen on the first day of the two day job fair. (LK)
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