Job fair with a difference in West Bengal

Kolkata, Feb 25: With a view to provide career development opportunities to thousands of youth, the Rotary Club has organised the 6th 'J4U' job fair here earmarking a special section for the physically challenged candidates.

A volunteer of Rotary Club, Shishir Riyanwala said, ''In this fair we are also trying to provide professional help and quality recruitment guidance to people with physical disabilities.'' District Rotary Public Relations Coordinator Subhojit Roy said, "This year the target is to provide good jobs to ten physically handicapped candidates against two last year." Members of the Rotary Club were also optimistic that this year the job fair would provide jobs to at least 400 job seekers out of 4000 who thronged the venue.

Nearly 26 leading companies cutting across various sectors like finance and banking, IT, insurance, media and mass communication participated in the two-day fair.

Wipro Spectramind, ITC Infotech, HSBC, GE Capital, Allianz Bajaj, Tata AIG, Airtel and Eureka Forbes were amongst the participating companies at the fair which concluded yesterday.

UNI