Pursat employment drive brought 10,732 vacancies to a provincial job forum

The campaign focused on local workers and returnees

The forum drew roughly 800 participants, including local residents, young people and Cambodian workers who had returned from Thailand. Officials placed the Pursat event within a broader domestic employment campaign and said more than 90,000 job opportunities had been assembled nationwide.

The 10,732 positions came from a mix of companies, factories, large enterprises and special economic zones. Reports on the event named participants from manufacturing, garments, finance and industrial-zone networks, but they did not provide a vacancy-by-vacancy breakdown for each organisation. The headline number is therefore best read as an aggregate presented through the forum, not as evidence that every participating organisation was hiring on the same scale.

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Recruitment was paired with social security and vocational training

The ministry used the event to promote formal employment alongside job matching. Workers entering registered employment were told about National Social Security Fund coverage that includes work-related risk protection, healthcare and pension benefits under the applicable schemes.

Training was another part of the programme. Pursat's provincial polytechnic was promoted for technical and vocational courses in areas such as electrical work, construction, equipment repair and service occupations. Some programmes were presented as free and accompanied by monthly financial support, giving job seekers without an immediately suitable skill set a route into training as well as recruitment.

The May total is not a live vacancy board

Anyone reading the 10,732 figure later should keep the date attached to it. The sources support the number announced around the May forum, but they do not establish that all 10,732 jobs were still unfilled later in the year. Employers may have hired, changed requirements or withdrawn openings after the event.

For a current search, the useful next step is to check the specific employer and role rather than rely on the original aggregate. The ministry promoted hotline 1297 for job-matching assistance during the campaign. The event materials were aimed at Cambodian citizens, local job seekers and returning migrant workers; they do not establish eligibility for foreign applicants.