The best employment outlooks for the last quarter of 2015 are in the construction and services sectors, mostly in Heredia, Alajuela and in the coastal regions.
Two U.S. technology companies will expand their operations here and will be looking for staff for their finance, software developing, software quality and other information technology departments.
Job hunters increasingly are using social media to find out about about potential employers. But a company’s website is still the main source of information for most of them, a recent study found.
Participating companies will be looking for bilingual staff for Human Resources, Service Desk Analysis, Software Development and Customer Service departments.
Unemployment in Costa Rica reached 10.1 percent in the first quarter of this year, a slight increase over the same period last year, the National Statistics and Census Institute (INEC) reported Tuesday.
A recent wave of layoffs across several sectors of the economy — from Wendy’s to Avianca — has culminated in more than 228,000 unemployed Costa Ricans at the end of the third quarter of 2014, according to figures from the National Statistics and Census Institute.
An annual bilingual job fair held by the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency, or CINDE, will offer 3,800 jobs at 48 businesses from Feb. 20-22 at the Antigua Aduana in downtown San José.
