 Young persons from the Castry Southeast community got a vital avenue to tap into career opportunities during a job fair recently at the CPJ Car Park in Kaldesak. A number of business establishments participated in a job fair, recruiting and offering career guidance to those who turned up. We are the National Skills Development Center. We're always excited to participate in any event or activity that actually allows our youth to go forward and allows them to make progress in life. And so of course we were excited to be invited at this career fair where we can actually show the youth different avenues whereby they themselves can actually be involved in their own job creation. You're looking at being able to embrace different skills that are entrepreneurial such as nail design, hair design as well, cake and cake making and decorating, bread and pastry making just to name a few of those those areas electricals as well. I really hope that going forward that anyone the young persons when those opportunities come up that they understand that this would add such value to their offering as an employee, as someone who's applying for a job because it would take away that unknown. You would now have a better idea of what to expect. When I first started working I did not have that opportunity to know what was expected. I mean thankfully some of us come with strong character so we're able to still carry ourselves and learn and grow without making any big sleep ups. But you will have some sleep ups along the way but doing this will definitely make a difference. Our business season is coming up so the whole idea was to get individuals to create a pool of talent for our business season specifically for food and beverage front desk and kitchen yeah that's what we have gotten so far. We're not targeting age groups specifically we're giving everybody an opportunity to apply so whatever they're interested in we have them follow the applications and then later on we will do an interview at the resort with them. Youth worker attached to the ministry of youth development and sports Nathan Hutchinson targets youth in castry southeast and parts of castry south. As coordinator of the job fair her intention was to bring employers to the youth of those communities. We saw that there was a lack of effort by the young people to find employment so we brought the work to them instead of sending them out there to look for the work. Today we had 15 businesses represented and the turnout today I believe was great most most of the young people's fill out applications I'm hopeful that they get a call back and interview at interview at the end of it all. From my count I saw maybe over 100 150 people passing through for the day there was never a big crowd there was a constant flow of people coming in and going out and this I feel like should be done in many communities throughout the country. The job fair was preceded by a job readiness training exercise at the Odson Human Resource Development Center. From the ministry of youth development and sports I'm Ryan O'Brien.