Around 8,000 people had a chance to meet today with over one hundred exhibitors – companies, institutions, international projects and employment mediators – at the Education and Job Fair ‘Learn, Network, Explore’ organised in Zenica under the auspices of the Office of the European Union Special Representative and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Visitors had a chance to meet with employers, embassies and agencies of the Member States of the European Union and of the United States, as well as representatives of NGOs and business incubators. There were over 40 presentations with interesting and useful topics for participants in the Fair, as well as roundtable discussions and interactive workshops including: ‘How to Become Visible in the Labour Market’ and ‘Employment Trends – Global vs. Local’. Participants were able to get advice on how to search for a job, how to prepare a CV, personal presentation during a job interview, in addition to having access to several hundred job ads and vacancies.
The Fair was opened by the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway to Bosnia and Herzegovina, H.E. Vibeke Lilloe, the Mayor of Zenica, Mr Husein Smajlovic, Chargé d’affaires of the EU Delegation to BiH, Dr Renzo Daviddi, and the Chair of the Political and Security Committee (a body of the Council of the European Union), H.E. Ambassador Walter Stevens.
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