Accra, May 4, GNA - The first online job fair aimed at bringing together qualified professionals with top employers as a way of creating alternative job recruitment method was on Thursday launched in Accra. The fair scheduled for July 2006 would create about 250 job vacancies based on employers' requirements.

Employers from government offices, the business community as well as international and internal offices are expected to participate in the fair.

Mr Yusuf Reja, Chief Executive Officer of the Ethiopian based Zebrajobs, briefing the press in Accra, said S-urge Consulting Group and Zebrajobs.com decided to organise it in Ghana to widen the net for Ghanaian job seekers to be able to find the type of employment they wanted easily.

He said companies that would take part in the fair would pay a registration fee of 1,000 dollars and would have their names listed on the Job Fair 2006 booklet and distributed to job seekers and other participating employers with their profiles enclosed along with lists of professionals wanted.

Mr Reja said the fair had four levels of sponsorship for companies that would want to sponsor it. These included exclusive sponsors which would attract 50,000 dollars; platinum which would go for 15,000 dollars; gold would cost 10,000 dollars and silver would be 5,000 dollars.

A company that sponsors exclusively would have the fair associated with its name. The logos and names would be posted on banners, posters and newspapers advertisements and on the front cover of the job fair booklet.

The company would also benefit from a free website link from Zebrajobs.com to the organisation's websites for the period of the fair. Mr Reja said as part of the fair, a job clinic would be established at Busy Internet for job seekers to be trained on how to use the internet to seek jobs, prepare their CVs and for interviews free of charge.

He said the website of Zebrajobs.com would soon be launched to give more room for people to subscribe, browse and know more about the service.

Mr Reja said similar fairs had already been organised in South Africa, Ethiopia, Botswana and others would soon take place in Nigeria, Senegal, Namibia and Zimbabwe.