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Renowned industry experts to provide career guidance at EDEX Expo

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The EDEX Mid-Year Expo & Job Fair will take stage on September3-4 at the Sri Lanka Exhibition and Convention Centre (SLECC) Colombo.


The Expo, Job Fair, Psychometric test counseling for all Expo participants at specially designed EDEX Career Pavilion and Career Guidance seminars will be main attractions this year. 
EDEX Careers in partnership with Psychometric test Academy will facilitate the Psychometric testing at the Expo. The results of this unique test which is based on skills and personality will help career seekers identify the best occupation that suits them.


The other distinctive feature this year is the Job Fair which offers unprecedented opportunities to career seekers. There will be one-to-one career counseling with over 175 local and international stalls by over 100 local and foreign universities and institutions from 12 countries,with daily career guidance seminars supplemented with full and partial scholarships, discounted offers and spot admissions. 


The most sought after series of career guidance seminars will be held on the themes of Sales and Marketing, Entrepreneurship, HR, Hospitality, Finance and Accountancy, IT/Software Development and Law, conducted by the best practitioners and professionals in respective fields daily.
The job fair will follow up withunprecedented 2,500 plus job vacancies in offer.


Furthermore, theEDEX Mid-Year Expo& Job Fair unrolls this year ata no better time when the government did emphasize as a policy the need to provide knowledge and competencies needed to overcome development gaps.
The EDEX Mid-Year Expo & Job Fair is organized by the leader in the tertiary education and careers exhibition sector in Sri Lanka endorsed by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Higher Education and Research, State Ministry of Youth Affairs, Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Skills Development and Vocational Training. 


The Expo team is also engaged in a multitude of CSR activities such as EDEX Magazine is a quarterly magazine with content in Sinhala, Tamil and English is distributed among 3,000 schools free-of-charge.