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Our eBook, Virtual Career Fairs & Recruiting Events, is your free portable guide to everything you always wanted to know about virtual recruiting programs but didn’t know whom to ask!
If you recruited employees or organized career fairs in 2020, you likely attended or hosted at least one virtual event. COVID-19 made virtual career fairs necessary; the open access, time savings, and cost-efficiency made them popular.
Today, event hosts are looking for easy, reliable solutions that are easy to produce and intuitive for attendees.
The five sections of this article introduce virtual career fairs, the pros and cons of these events, and steps to help you maximize the benefits for job seekers and hiring specialists.
A virtual career fair is an internet-based recruiting event hosted by a corporation, university, or organization to create employer-candidate connections online. These events are delivered on custom platforms accessed via websites or mobile apps. Program hosts, employers, and candidates benefit from various features depending on the technology.
The software also informs what other types of virtual recruiting events you can host besides career fairs. The more robust the platform, the wider the variety of online recruiting options you can offer your employers and job seekers.
Read our Top 3 Event Ideas for Virtual Recruiting before your next planning session!
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To maximize these benefits, choose a robust hosting platform with features such as:
Replace chat queues with confirmed meeting times
Customize 1:1, group, and panel sessions
User-friendly interface increases engagement
Attend weekly webinars and access Help Desk articles
Talk or chat with real people before, during, and after your event
Assess program success and track candidate status with unique metrics for event hosts and employers
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Everything you need to know about hosting a virtual career fair you already learned planning on-site events. It’s a similar process made easier with time-saving automation, customizable schedules, multiple meeting formats, and a bunch of easy-going, happy people at CF+ ready to help!
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Amy Aldridge
Employer Relations Specialist, Office of Career Services
Southeast Missouri State University
Sue Clayton
Senior Recruiting Specialist
Syracuse University | Whitman School of Management
Kevin Foster
Campus Relations Manager
Intel Corporation
Chloe Jacob
Events Officer, Careers & Employability Centre
University of Sussex
Sue Clayton
Senior Recruiting Specialist
Syracuse University | Whitman School of Management
Laura Lemza
Assistant Director for Career and Industry Advising
VCU College of Engineering Career Services
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As the saying goes, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” And in this case, COVID is the necessity that forced career event hosts to innovate from on-site programs to online recruiting. So, if you're looking to increase your format options, choose a hosting partner whose technology platform offers more than chat queues or virtual profiles.
You know CF+ supports your virtual events. We also help you host socially distant, on-site recruiting events, including in-person career fairs with proprietary crowd management tools and 1:1 scheduling.
And CF+ does hybrid recruiting events when you’re ready to bring back in-person recruiting and keep your virtual programs moving forward.
Career Fair+ is uniquely positioned to help you build in-person, virtual, and hybrid career fairs. Schedule a call with one of our super-friendly problem solvers who can explain it all. (That’s a thank you rhyme for reading this whole blog!)