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<\/a><\/p>\nIt was attended by hundreds of teenagers who were able to find information on future careers.<\/p>\n
Major employers there included the main sponsor, Pendine Park care organisation, and Ruthin-based civil engineering company Jones Bros.<\/p>\n
The event featured career advice from seasoned professionals for young people between 14 and 18 and job advertisements in the afternoon for people aged 16 and above.<\/p>\n
Students from Denbigh High School, St. Brigid’s School and the Denbigh Campus of Coleg Llandrillo, attended the fair, which was the brainchild of Mark Young, proprietor of Denbigh Chocolate Shop.<\/p>\n
Vale of Clwyd MP Chris Ruane was there to show his support, as was the High Sheriff of Clwyd David Meredith Jones.<\/p>\n Mr Ruane said: \u201cI take my hat off to Mark Young and to Mario Kreft for organising this. It\u2019s a fantastic event which we hope to replicate in other areas – possibly in Rhyl.<\/p>\n \u201cIt just goes show what the local people, local businesses and schools can do when they come together.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve talked to stallholders here that have attended jobs fairs across North Wales and they\u2019ve said they don\u2019t even compare to this.<\/p>\n \u201cThe stalls here today are offering 500 jobs. There are 1,600 people unemployed in Denbighshire, and if we get those jobs to the people unemployed in Denbighshire then we\u2019ll reduce unemployment by a third.\u201d<\/p>\n Mark Young was delighted with how the event went.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic and it shows what people can achieve when they pull together. A lot of people have got behind this including Mario Kreft from Pendine Park, Chris Ruane, and David Meredith Jones.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are around 25 companies and organisations offering over 500 jobs.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s good for the community, good for business and hopefully a lot of young people will get jobs at the end of it.\u201d<\/p>\n Mario Kreft MBE, the proprietor of the award-winning Pendine Park care organisation which employs more than 600 people, thinks the event was a resounding success.<\/p>\n Mr Kreft, who lives in Denbigh, said: \u201cI think it\u2019s excellent to encourage young people to start thinking at the earliest age about the sort of career they\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n \u201cI think events like today will give young people a real opportunity to consider their options and obviously we hope that one of those options will be to work in the community within social care.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s great to see so many people here. It\u2019s first class and Pendine Park care organisation is delighted to be able to support it.\u201d<\/p>\n Denbigh High School student Jess Jefferson, 13, thinks the fair has been very helpful.<\/p>\n \u201cThis event is cool because it helps people with what they want to do after they leave school. I\u2019m not sure what I want to do in the future but this jobs fair has given me a few ideas. I\u2019ve been looking at information from the Army recruitment stall because I\u2019m in Cadets, Denbigh Platoon.<\/p>\n Fellow Denbigh Hugh pupil Magi Davies, 13, added: \u201cI think the jobs fair has been very helpful because I want to be a police officer and I found out a lot about it. There are college courses that I can take and there\u2019s loads of help around. It\u2019s good to think about these things early.\u201d<\/p>\n The sentiment was echoed by their Head Teacher Mr Simeon Molloy.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cI think it\u2019s an excellent event for the students that are making their option choices and it gives them an idea of what the job market is. This is a great opportunity for them to get a taste of what the real world is like, and speak to people who may well be their future employers.\u201d<\/p>\n Recruitment consultant for North Wales-based recruitment agency Victoria Hindmarch, said: \u201cI think it\u2019s a great set up and I think Mark Young\u2019s idea of putting this careers fair together is a great way of not only seeing the young talent that\u2019s coming through but also showing how business and a recruitment agency like ours can collaborate in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Mary Tetley, chief executive of the scuba diving organisation the British Sub-aqua Club, who had a stall at the event, added: \u201cWhen I was at school my careers advice wasn\u2019t very good really and I\u2019ve just been very lucky that I found the right career.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n