The Labour Department will stage a two-day recruitment forum March 13 and 14 at Kwai Tsing Theatre, offering about 4,000 vacancies.

The free forum will be held 11am to 5pm. Fifteen companies providing about 3,000 vacancies will set up recruitment booths for on-the-spot applications. Special panels will also be mounted to display about 1,000 vacancies offered by another 27 companies. Job-seekers are welcome to submit applications to these companies direct.

Participants come from various trades and industries, including retail, catering, property management, information technology, hotel and laboratory testing. The vacancies cover a wide variety of positions, with 90% offering a monthly salary ranging from $5,000 to $10,000.

Career talks on employment opportunities of individual companies will be held. The department will also conduct on-the-spot job-seeking registration.