Job Fair Not Fair? Don't Despair!

Traditional job fairs are usually held on college campuses or in other prominent, easily accessible areas. While this is convenient for the organizations sponsoring them, it's a bit too convenient for the attendees, who swarm in like buzzards who've just caught wind of a ripe kill. The employers hosting them are swamped by hungry job seekers, each one more desperate and motivated than the last -- how will you ever be able to compete? Fortunately, for tech-savvy individuals such as yourselves, many job fairs are going digital, giving you an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of an emerging recruitment technique and get an edge over the competition. While the job fair experience is partially about getting face time with company representatives, there's no guarantee that these representatives will remember you -- in fact, it's almost guaranteed that they won't -- nor is there any guarantee that these representatives will have the time to dispense information not available in a brochure or on the company's website. What is guaranteed is that your follow-up correspondence -- thank-you letters and check-up calls/emails -- are what will get you noticed. Your resume and presence at the job fair are little more than opening acts at the job fair circus, so if you'd rather not have to endure the chaos of the event, don't worry, because you can always make it to the website and make yourself noticed without (most of) the hassle. 

Labels: digital resume, follow-ups, job fair

Posted by Brian on 1/18/2009 10:27:00 PM
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