LOST online recruitment portal in Beqaa

The Lebanese Organization of Studies and Training (LOST) launched on Wednesday the Entrepreneurship and Employment Bureau (http://eeb-lost.org),  the first online recruitment portal in the Beqaa aimed to connect employers with job seekers. The launch event came during the second edition of the career fair event organized jointly by LOST and UNICEF in Baalbek with the participation of some 20 institutions. Dozens of young graduates, professionals and job hunters visited the venue to display their aptitudes and specialties and learn more about the site and how to use it. On the occasion, the media officer at LOST, Ahmad Shalha, pressed the need for more similar exhibitions, pointing to the portal’s important role in provision of jobs, namely in Baalbek-Hermel area that suffers of high unemployment rates among the youth and university graduates. (L’Orient Le Jour, December 21, 2017)