Nowon-gu Hosts 'Job Fair for People with Disabilities'

Job Fair Held on the 12th from 10 AM to 4 PM at Junggye Neighborhood Park with 45 Companies Participating, On-site Interviews Conducted, and Follow-up Support Provided... First-time Hands-on Job Training Booths Including Barista, Baking, and Nail Art Experience

Nowon-gu, Seoul (District Mayor Oh Seung-rok) announced on the 12th that it will hold the ‘2023 Nowon-gu Job Fair for People with Disabilities’ at Junggye Neighborhood Park near Junggye Station.

First held in 2021 and now in its third year, the ‘2023 Nowon-gu Job Fair for People with Disabilities’ will place companies capable of actually hiring people with disabilities at the fair site, providing a meeting place where job seekers and employers can meet directly.

At last year’s fair, about 1,400 job seekers visited, 239 people with disabilities conducted job interviews, 12 were hired on the spot, and about 40 were hired later. Avoiding a formalistic fair, this year’s event has been made more substantial to provide customized jobs for people with disabilities who wish to find employment and to create a fair where people with disabilities themselves participate directly.

The fair will be operated with ▲Recruitment Hall ▲Job Training Hall ▲Promotion Hall ▲Side Event Hall.

In the Recruitment Hall, 25 booths from corporate recruitment halls and a total of 45 companies will participate, conducting customized recruitment interviews by disability type and job category. You can also find places that give preference to job seekers with disabilities who have related skills such as office assistance, caregiving assistance, video production, customer consultation, as well as barista, sports, and bakery.

In addition, local vocational rehabilitation facilities (protected workshops) will also participate. Since they provide vocational rehabilitation training programs such as vocational adaptability and job skill improvement and pay wages corresponding to labor, the district expects to promote vocational education for people with disabilities and maintain stable employment.

The Job Training Hall is being introduced for the first time at this year’s fair. It aims to enhance employment desire through job experience in response to the diversification of job types for people with disabilities. Visitors can directly experience barista, baking and pastry, nail art, kiosk operation, and subcontracting work.

In the Promotion Hall, 10 local organizations related to jobs for people with disabilities will participate, providing institutional promotion and job information. In addition, interviews with people with disabilities who have succeeded in employment will be shown on video to boost confidence among job seekers. Mr. Lee, who participated in the interview, has been involved since last year in Nowon-gu’s representative job projects for people with disabilities, the ‘Shared Bookshelf and Green Environment Care Project,’ helping to maintain shared bookshelves in the area and expressing job satisfaction.

The Side Event Hall will offer various enjoyable activities such as employment support through interview ID photo shoots, massage demonstrations for the visually impaired, and calligraphy.

Post-management support will also be provided to job seekers who participate in the fair. After the fair ends, employment status and adaptation after employment will be checked, and unemployed people with disabilities will continue to receive employment counseling and linkage.

Furthermore, the district will expand direct participation opportunities for people with disabilities in the event. Job seekers with disabilities will create promotional posters for the job fair themselves, and a disability arts group composed of five people with developmental disabilities will perform a beautiful show.

District Mayor Oh Seung-rok said, “Good jobs are the best welfare for people with disabilities,” adding, “We will actively support discovering quality companies and lowering the employment barriers for people with disabilities through a meeting place between people with disabilities and companies.”