TAWAU: .He said of the 13,313 vacancies available during the four carnivals held in Sandakan, Semporna, Kota Kinabalu and Kota Belud, only 983 people managed to secure employment. He said the number only represented seven per cent of the jobs available and the Government was disappointed by the lukewarm response despite the efforts that had been done to encourage job seekers to participate in the carnivals.
“We hope employers and industries in Sarawak or Peninsular Malaysia will extend their cooperation in efforts to address the problem of unemployment and retrenchment in Sabah,” he said at the launch of the Tawau Premier Career Carnival organised by the Department of Human Resource Development in collaboration with Social Security Organisation and Tawau Municipal Council, here.