LAPU-LAPU CITY, Mactan - Some 5,000 jobs will be made available in Lapu-Lapu City, Mactan, Cebu today in a job fair organized by Megaworld Corp., one of the country's leading property developer, to boost full operations within its township project.
“It will be exciting times for Cebuanos this June as Megaworld, through our tenants, will begin to hire 5,000 jobs. This is part of our commitment to job generation for Lapu-Lapu City and the entire province of Cebu,“ announced Megaworld first vice president Jericho Go in a recent press conference.
During today's one-day job fair, positions available are a mix of business process outsourcing, sales, hospitality, human resources, and administrative. Of the 5,000 jobs tar get, though, 2,000 to 3,000 positions will probably be for BPO work as part of the requirement of its first two locators—Results Manila and Infra USA, Go revealed.
The rest, he cited, will be for Megaworld, McDonald’s, and Resorts World, which has seen the potential of hiring Cebuanos and providing them opportunities in Manila.
“We are excited to get the best talents of Cebu to work here and enjoy the township lifestyle that Megaworld has to offer in the Mactan Newtown,” said Go.
He too explained that developments at Megaworld’s Mactan Newtown are beginning to fast-track.
Results Manila and Infra USA are occupying the four levels of One World Center, the township’s first office tower.
Other big names in the BPO and information technology sector, and existing tenants of Megaworld’s development projects in Manila like Accenture, IBM, WNS, and several others expressed interest to locate at The Mactan Newtown, said Go.
Mactan Newtown’s second office tower, Two World Center, is set to be completed by first half of 2014. It will offer 7,274 square meters of gross leasable area.
“We have steady pipeline of office space from now to 2015,” he said, emphasizing that while its project in Cebu is planning to expand the land area within the 20-hectare development, Megaworld continues to cement its leadership as the largest BPO landlord in the Philippines.
The Mactan Newtown, with its more than 20-hectare land area, had been declared as the “mixed-use special economic zone for technology, tourism and retirement” by President Benigno S. Aquino III through Proclamation No. 407 last year.

Source: Manila Bulletin - June 1, 2013