4 Japanese firms in Batangas ecozone in hiring mode

Four Japanese companies with manufacturing facilities inside the Lopez-controlled First Philippine Industrial Park (FPIP) economic zone in the cities of Santo Tomas and Tanauan in Batangas are hiring over 1,000 workers.

In a statement on Friday, FPIP external relations manager John Carlo Navalta said there were at least 1,430 job openings in four of their locator companies including Brother Industries (Philippines) Inc., Canon Business Machines (Philippines), Inc., Ibiden (Philippines), Inc., and Philippine Manufacturing Co. of Murata Inc.

The new job openings include career opportunities for engineers, accountants, nurses, human resource personnel and other office-based workers, according to Navalta.

The FPIP executive said that 457 job applicants so far, most of them fresh or recent graduates, have hurdled the initial screening and would undergo the next stage of evaluation and screening, including interviews.

Roughly a thousand jobs remain open for job seekers, he added.

Established in 1996, 520-hectare ecozone is a joint venture between Sumitomo and local conglomerate First Philippine Holdings.

Today, the management of the FPIP said it provides employment for almost 70,000 Filipinos.