Marine Atlantic job fair in Sydney draws hundreds

Hundreds of people turned out to a job fair advertising 95 positions withMarine Atlantic in Sydney, N.S., Thursday.

Marine Atlantic, which runs a ferry between Cape Breton and Newfoundland, has openings for permanent on-call, spare, and relief assistant stewards for the 2016 season, company human resources manager Dan Tobin said.

People from around Cape Breton crowded the roomat the Sydney YMCA to hear the employment pitch.

Laura Walker was one of the first in line."I think it's a good place to work," she said.

Jeremy Bond, 22, brought his resume from Louisbourg."I've got my class-threecourse and I got a bunch of my safety tickets," hesaid.

The high turnout will "make our job much more difficult because there's obviously great interest," Tobin said.

More jobs could be posted

The company plans to review the resumes and start interviews in January.

More jobs may become available with further retirements and promotions, he said. Those could include work in the stevedore-based operation in North Sydney or PortauxBasques, N.L., or aboard vessels in the deck and engine departments, Tobin said.

Another job fair is scheduled in PortauxBasques in December.