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Thousands seek jobs through Net

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Thousands of job seekers are advertising their qualifications on the Labour Department's revised Internet homepage.

Employers can also recruit staff and list vacancies on the Web site, called 'Interactive Employment Service'.

The service is part of a new initiative to modernise the department's employment service.

Previously, the site only listed vacancies and did not have a search engine. Now job seekers can search for openings by salary, job title or location. They can list their skills, work experience and education levels in a database scanned by employers.

Within two weeks of the Web site's launch on March 11, a total of 2,013 job seekers and 193 employers signed up to be listed on the site, according to department figures. Some 1,500 people visit the new homepage daily.

At the end of its first two weeks of operation, the site listed 263 vacancies for managers and administrators, 164 for engineers and 58 for computer programmers, among others.

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