FROM GRADUATION TO GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT: SPUP JOB FAIR OPENS DOORS TO CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
June 4, 2026
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To connect academic preparation with immediate corporate placement, St. Paul University Philippines (SPUP), through its Career and Placement Center, organized the SPUP Job Fair on June 3, 2026, at the SM City Tuguegarao. Formalized through a partnership with the Public Employment Service Office (PESO) Tuguegarao City and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the employment hub drew a turnout of nearly 611 job seekers. The event streamlined the recruitment cycle, allowing candidates, consisting of immediate Class of 2026 graduation candidates and university alumni, to undergo real-time credential screenings and face-to-face interviews with corporate executives.
The employment drive serves as a direct barometer of SPUP’s Employability Index, evaluating how its graduates transition into professional spaces. Year-on-year, SPUP aims to deploy a skilled cohort into regional, national, and global marketplaces. Industry feedback gathered on-site from participating corporate leaders validated that Paulinian job seekers possess the technical competency, communication skills, and ethical foundations sought after by modern enterprises. The university’s Career Placement Services backs this standard by designing targeted interventions, including resume-building workshops, mock panel interviews, and professional decorum seminars, ensuring that graduating students are equipped to step into roles as industry leaders.
To match the multidisciplinary academic programs offered at SPUP, the career fair structured a corporate ecosystem spanning various industry sectors, co-facilitated with PESO Tuguegarao City to ensure local alignment and placement. Under the commercial and consumer service track, the retail, customer service, and hospitality fields were reinforced by companies like SM Hypermarket, which sought customer assistants, cashiers, baggers, and clerks to scale up its workforce, alongside food service players like Staff Search Asia Service Cooperative recruiting service crew, cashiers, and kitchen crew. This was complemented by the technology and communications sector, where the customer support and business processing industries were driven by Everise Isabela, targeting customer service representatives.
For business, healthcare, and academic tracks, the financial services, banking, and consumer finance segments saw representation to accommodate accounting and commerce majors; BDO led with a talent search for client service associates, marketing assistants, accounting assistants, sales support assistants, travelling tellers, and staff pools, while HC Consumer Finance Philippines, Inc. scouted for sales associates. Joining these banking firms was the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), which expanded the financial sector’s footprint alongside local firms. Furthermore, the healthcare and institutional education sectors were anchored by local entities looking for professionals; Ace Medical Center and St. Paul Hospital of Tuguegarao Inc. both targeted medical talent by pooling for staff nurses and medical technologists, while St. Paul University Philippines itself looked inward to reinforce its own academic divisions, opening pathways for clinical instructors holding master’s degrees.
Underscoring the immediate economic impact of the event, the career fair brought together a total of 17 participating companies and institutions, creating job vacancies across multiple fields. The talent-to-opportunity alignment yielded employment results, culminating in a number of qualified applicants who were officially Hired-On-The-Spot (HOTS) by recruitment sectors like business process outsourcing, financial marketing, and retail operations. Organizers and corporate representatives noted that the environment accelerated these hiring processes and provided professional networking opportunities for the professionals entering the workforce. Concurrently, DOLE representatives managed legal consultation desks, providing labor standard orientations to protect and empower the emerging workforce as they enter the labor market.
By Mr. Ian Jaylord Beran
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