WEEKEND ADDRESS FOR JOB HUNTERS

Sept. 9: At least 200 job aspirants were shortlisted for interviews on the first day of The Telegraph Jobs Shine.com Calcutta Job Fair, presented by RICE Education and Adamas University, today.

Fifteen hundred people turned up at the St. Xavier's College auditorium where the two-day fair started today.

The Britannia and Coca-Cola (DBPL) stalls had the longest queues.

An organiser said jobseekers could look at marketing, sales and HR.

Wockhardt, LICI, ICFAI group, and Dominos are some of the other companies at the fair.

Ashmita Chaki, 23, who has completed her MA in political science from Calcutta University, said she found the fair useful. Chaki, who is a freelancer with a publishing house, said she dropped her CV at three stalls.

"This is my first visit to a job fair. It's a good place to build contacts," she said.

"I wanted to check if there are jobs that I want to do. I am happy... but I had expected some jobs from the media industry as well."

Bhargadeb Biswas, 25, a commerce graduate, said he was visiting a job fair for the first time. "Such fairs provide the advantage of multiple companies under one roof," Biswas said. "Also, we get a fair idea of what recruiters want after speaking to people at the stalls."

For the recruiters, too, it is a good experience as they find job aspirants with diverse backgrounds.

"We found engineers, management professionals - some freshers and some with a few years' experience. I liked their profile," Prakash Pandey, regional manager, HR, Britannia, said.

He said the company had several openings as it was expanding in the east.

The organisers said they expected a bigger turnout tomorrow, the last day of the fifth edition of Calcutta Job Fair. "We expect more than 3,000 people tomorrow," one of the organisers said.

Jobseekers can register at www.shine.com/kolkatajobfair by paying Rs 90 as registration fee. Offline registration will be allowed on the spot against payment of Rs 100.