Agde: nearly a thousand offers to be taken up during the Jobs Forum, Saturday March 9 at the Palais des Congrès

Job seekers and employers will meet on Saturday at the Palais des Congrès. PHOTO CAHM

L’Agglo and its partners are offering this major event a few weeks before the launch of the tourist season.

And here we are again talking about seasonal work. It’s the time you will tell me, while the Easter holidays – which begin on April 6 for the Montpellier academy, the first on the list this year – traditionally sound the three bells of the tourist season.

A meeting lasting over time

At the end of covid, employers had all the difficulty in the world recruiting staff. This is also the reason why the Hérault Méditerranée agglomeration has worked to perpetuate and develop its traditional seasonal employment fair, by also integrating job offers. rsquo;year.

Hundreds of offers in multiple sectors

Thus, Saturday March 9 at the Palais des Congrès in Cap d’Agde, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. non-stop, nearly a thousand offers will be offered by local businesses. A meeting which follows the outdoor hotel trade fair, organized last January at the Moulin des Évêques and "which worked very well", appreciates Monique Rouby, director of the France Travail agency in Agde. "We have was pleasantly surprised by the number and quality of candidates." It must also be said that the longest contracts – roughly between April and September – were proposed, which will be less the case next weekend, where the Saturday date was not chosen by chance, in particular to encourage the arrival of students looking for a job. ;summer over two or three months.

Hospitality, entertainment, agriculture, commerce

These job offers will be found in the fields of hospitality, catering, outdoor hospitality, commerce and distribution, leisure, entertainment, agriculture too, boating, personal services and construction. Anne Patruno, who runs the cleaning company All’Clean 34 with her husband, will offer around ten positions for cleaning women (or men). "This year, we have a lot of applications, but there are still places to fill", she explains, while the& ;rsquo;company, which has four employees year-round, hires between 30 and 40 people in the summer, to clean the resort's residences.