Success of the first day of FormaOcupa, with thousands of visitors
Tomorrow the Speed Job Dating will take place, a rapid job interview session
The companies participating in the Lleida Training and Employment Fair have already held more than a hundred contacts with young people from the region
Thousands of participants, mostly young students from Lleida educational centres, filled pavilions 3, 4 and 5 of Fira de Lleida on Thursday during the first day of FormaOcupa, the Lleida Training and Employment Fair. Visitors came from the city of Lleida and various towns in the region, and their presence was made possible in large part thanks to the Diputació de Lleida service, which these days provides free coach transport to about 2,100 students from the Lleida counties. On the other hand, the companies present at the fair with concrete job offers held more than a hundred contacts today with young people potentially interested in those offers.
The mayor of Lleida, Fèlix Larrosa, stressed during the institutional visit that "we must have the capacity and possibility to train all those young people who in the future must nurture our economic sectors" and that the fair also represents "an opportunity for young people who do not know what they want to study and who here see all the possibilities and can thus guide their professional career".
The mayor said he was "very happy" with the massive attendance of visitors and said that this great response justifies the expansion of the fair's surface area, an expansion that "is both a quantitative leap and a qualitative leap" and confirms FormaOcupa "as one of the leading vocational training fairs in the country". He also stressed that the fair will help prevent talented people from leaving the region to work elsewhere and added that the presence at the fair of business entities such as the Federation of Hospitality, the Chamber of Commerce or PIMEC, "groups that constantly tell me they need people to work in certain specialities". "More companies plus training equals results," he concluded.
Tomorrow Friday the Speed Job Dating will take place, a session of rapid job interviews with companies from various sectors. Interested parties can request an appointment with these companies on the website www.formaocupa.com, where you can also consult all the fair's activities and the aforementioned job offers.
The 19th edition of FormaOcupa takes place from 26 to 28 February with 80 companies and entities related to training and employment and nearly 150 activities, including talks, workshops, demonstrations and other initiatives. The fair's opening hours, which is free to enter, are 9.30 to 19.00 (Thursday) and 9.30 to 14.00 (Friday and Saturday).
FormaOcupa, a leading fair in the fields of training and employment, offers job opportunities with companies from various sectors that interview candidates and seek professional profiles and also focuses on promoting entrepreneurship, with information and advice for starting your own projects; on vocational training and professional qualifications, aimed at unemployed people and working people, and on continuous training for active workers, aimed at expanding skills and improving business competitiveness.