For the first time, a job fair was held for both differently-abled and abled persons in the State here on Thursday. As many as 700 aspirants of both the categories from various districts in the State participated in the job fair, organised by the Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for Handicapped (VRCH).
A large number of companies from various sectors like the WIPRO, the Reliance, The World, the Rojgar India and the Barbeque Nation Hospitality joined the event. “For the first time we have called both the non-disabled and disabled persons to the job fair. This type of job fair is the first of its kind in the State,” said VRCH Assistant Director Ram Kishor Sharma.
“The companies first scrutinise the applications on the basis of educational qualification and skills and call the applicants when there is vacancies,” Sharma said.
Candidates have applied for both executive and non executive posts, for which the minimum qualifications are both graduation and under-graduation. The salary for the posts ranges from Rs 5,500 to Rs 15,000, he informed.
“Through this fair, I hope that I would be able to find a job that would enable me to become independent and self-sufficient,” said SK Abdulhamid, a polio-affected person, who is a graduate and has skills in computer typing.
“The mindset of companies towards people with disabilities has been changing, which is evident in the fair. Persons with disability are not migrating to other places regularly. They are stable,” said the employers.
Puri- based Sharmili Mishra said, “Though Physically-disabled are different from us, they have good enough in coomunication skill and they have technical knowledge also.