Some 2,400 people swamped a jobs fair offering 200 posts yesterday, with university graduates applying for low-paid jobs such as watchmen and security guards.
Employers from retail, property management, luxury goods, hotel and airline businesses geared up for a new wave of job-seekers at the Labour Department-run Job Information Station at Tuen Mun Town Hall.
Community relations manager Cheung Yat-sum of Citybase Property Management said more than 20 graduates were among the company's 302 applications for jobs as watchmen and security guards.
'But most applicants were secondary students and people in their 40s,' Ms Cheung said.
Kam Chi Fook Jewellery Company received 70 applications, including some from university graduates, for clerical and sales vacancies which were paying about $6,500 a month.
Supermarket Carrefour is hiring 120 people to fill jobs ranging from store assistants to managers.
'We are opening our fourth store. The economic slump hasn't affected our investments in Asia,' said non-food division head Katherine Wong Sui-chun.
