Job Fair Tips >> Find Your Dream Career at the Job Fair

By RO


One of the major access that provides information on employment opportunities at job seekers, whether they come from the professional or student or fresh graduate is a job market or job fair. This is an event that presents a lot of companies are recruiting employees at one place, at the same time.

Today more companies are realizing that the job market is a powerful way to recruit more employees within a relatively short time. Generally they use the job fair to recruit employees and conduct preliminary selection for the entry and middle levels. For them, the job market to save time, effort and funds to recruit and conduct initial screening of candidates.

In this event they can even do initial interviews. The recruitment process runs quickly and efficiently on the job market for job seekers who come have been filtered according to the type of job market itself. Job market also often be an event to do branding for companies that have a target market according to the job fair visitors.

In Indonesia, the job market is often held by companies that are struggling in the workplace, government institutions, several leading public and private universities and even large national companies.

Job fair is a chance that if you do not miss job hunting. In addition to getting the job information, you can use this event to expand the network and obtain information on developments in your field. In order for your visit effective and efficient there are a few things worth noting.

1. Job fair is no place for 'window shopping' jobs. If you only intend to walk and look around with the thought that everyone knew there was a suitable job, then believe that you only spend time and energy just throw away. Job fair in Indonesia can be sure will always be filled with visitors. Moreover, at this time when global and national economic conditions are not too profitable, and many companies have to 'lay off' their employees. Come to this event with serious intent and preparation to find work.

2. Know the type of each job fair. Sometimes the event is specifically organized to accommodate the need for manpower in certain areas. Some universities often hold job fair specifically for the field of information technology, there is also a special job fair for job seekers the field of marketing. Not infrequently also a special company held a job fair to meet the recruitment needs of their own. That's why knowing the importance of clear information about the type of job market you will visit to make sure you target the right of the job market.

3. Find out as much as possible about the job fair is addition to the type, place, time, registration fee, you also should know the plan of the job market, booth location of your target companies. Thus you do not need to get around a time when you try to apply at your target company.

4. Update your CV and cover letter create general. Before you visit a job fair, a time to update your CV. Print some of your CV and cover letter on paper and bring your representative with hard plastic folder so as not to 'crumpled'. If the job fair will be visited using a paperless method, then you only need to prepare a soft copy of your CV and cover letter. JobsDB.com is usually held a job fair with this method. Store in a flash disk and make sure it does not exceed the applicable provisions. Make sure also that the flash disk is virus free because although there is usually a help desk who are willing to help clean up your files, but doing so will spend a lot of your time. Besides can upload your CV on the spot, visitors are also strongly advised to first register and register / upload their CVs on the web site job fair. This will save much time and you'll avoid the snaking queue.

5. Appearance is one thing important in applying for work in the job market. The first impression you give will inevitably be created by your appearance. You do not need to wear a blazer / jacket complete and high boots (if you're female). Dress neatly and formally like material pants, shirt and shoes neatly closed. For a while, take lip piercings, eyebrow, tongue or places other unusual.

6. Prepare yourself if you turned out to be directly facing the interview. Do not panic if you are asked to directly interview, this would indicate that the company is interested in your qualifications. Make a list of answers to the following questions:

   1. Tell me about yourself.
   2. What makes you feel fit for this job.
   3. What are your strengths and weaknesses.
   4. How do you see yourself in five years.

7. Prepare your physical with enough rest and do not forget to eat before you visit the job fair. Low blood sugar will make you lose your concentration so that would make it difficult later when answering questions from the interviewer.

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Career Tips > 9 Job Search Tips for New Graduates

By Kathy Kristof

College graduation season is set to launch millions of youthful job seekers into an already depressed employment market. If you’re among the masses, realize that preparation is key. Here’s what you need to do to get hired.

1) Edit your profile. Those drunken party photos might have impressed your Facebook friends, but now they could dissuade a prospective employer from hiring you, says Stephen Miles, vice chairman of executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles and co-author of Your Career Game. Recruiters do extensive web searches on people they intend to hire, including checking social media sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. If you’ve posted compromising photos or a stupid status update (i.e. Nice day. I think I’ll call in sick and go to the beach…) it could cost you a job. Get rid of it.

2) Do your homework. Don’t just figure that you can post a resume on monster.com and find work, says Janice Bryant Howroyd, CEO of staffing company AppleOne. You ought to study all aspects of your chosen field and seek information about the companies doing business in that area. Go to the company web sites and see if they’re posting open positions, too. If you send a resume, tailor it specifically to the job you’re seeking, Howroyd suggests.

3. Prepare to relocate. Live in a city where the job prospects are bleak? You can vastly increase your chance of getting work by seeking employment in other zip codes. The folks at job search site Indeed.com recently came up with a list of the best and worst cities to find work.

4) Think small. Many graduates focus on big, brand-name companies, but it’s the smaller and mid-sized companies that are doing most of the hiring now, Howroyd says. Taking jobs that “no one wants” is often an opportunity that no one else sees, adds Nathan Bennett, professor of management at Georgia Tech and the other co-author of Your Career Game. A first job is an opportunity to get experience. The smaller the company, the thinner the staff, the more likely you are to learn a wide array of skills.

5) Set targets. Set goals every day for either sending out a set number of resumes; filling out a set number of applications or finding a set number of new opportunities. Don’t hit the beach until you’ve hit your goal. You can’t change the job market, but you can determine how hard you try. Trying harder than your peers makes you the one most likely to get work.

6) Be persistent. If you go to an interview and don’t hear from the employer, follow up with a phone call. If they gave the job to another person, don’t be angry — be interested. Politely ask the hiring manager if he or she can tell you whether there was something that the other person did that particularly impressed them or something that you did wrong. If your approach is respectful and aimed at learning (rather than second-guessing their actions), they’re likely to help you better position yourself for the next interview. And if they tell you that you were fine, the other person was just more qualified, don’t be shy about asking them to keep you in mind for the next opportunity. If you don’t have a job in three or four months, call again and see if anything has opened up.

7) Work your network. Ask your friends, your parents, your parents’ friends, if they know of anything that would suit you. Check in with your college career office and attend their alumni functions. When there are hundreds of people applying for a given job, a personal referral can make your application stand out.

8) Be a temp. Some companies may not be willing to hire permanent full-time staff, but need help. You can sign up with a temporary company, like AppleOne, that will send you out on a daily basis to these companies. The benefits: You earn money; you get to know employers and employers get to know you.

9) Don’t despair. It’s a rotten job market, so it could take time to get work. And when you do get work, it may not be the ‘perfect job’ that you envisioned. Keep a good attitude and don’t let it get to you. Every job — even a nightmare job — is experience on your resume and a potential reference for a new employer. Do you best no matter where you end up working, and chances are good that you’ll get a better job in no time.

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The Making of a Successful Virtual Job Fair

The relevance of a virtual job fair today

With the widespread use of the Internet for job searches, recruiters and hiring managers have a larger pool of accessible job candidates. The consequent information overload is inevitable. A typical search within a job board gives a recruiter thousands of choices and not enough time in the day to review all of them. A virtual job fair serves as a levee to arrest the information deluge, capture a relevant, interested and manageable part of the database, invite them to a job fair, and fish for the best candidates. From the candidates' perspective, they enjoy the ability to fish for the best opportunities. By creating manageable capsules of time, (web) space, and information, a virtual job fair creates a sheltered environment without the noise and clutter of the Internet for a recruiter or hiring manager to directly connect with a potential job candidate.

The other reason that a virtual job fair has become relevant is that hiring companies are trying their best to make their brand stand out amongst their competitors to attract the best talent that is out there. Many organizations are able to receive résumés of interested job candidates at their own career websites. Some even have a .jobs domain name to go with their overall web presence. With such elements they are trying to create an exclusive corner for their hiring needs and thus build some branding. To create an element of brand-loyalty even before they have become an employee of the company, many organizations prefer to have their own online event to invite and engage candidates who have expressed interest in working for that specific organization. The virtual job fair is an ideal way to maintain a pipeline of future employees that care about an organization's brand

Three 'C's for a successful virtual job fair

There are several factors that make for a successful virtual job fair, but in our experience the most critical ones are making them Convenient, Crisp and Current.

a) Convenient: If a job fair can be wrapped around the needs of the job candidate, it has a better chance of success. We conducted a job fair where the recruiters 'staffed' their virtual booth on a Sunday morning (from the comfort of their home via the Internet) just to make it convenient to working professionals who may not have time during the work week for a serious job search. Candidates were able to attend online, connect instantly via chat with the recruiter, schedule an interview or even have an initial phone interview with the recruiter that Sunday morning. Since the internet does not have any boundaries of time, it stands a better chance of success if it creates spells of interactivity aligned with the convenience of the job candidates in mind. Convenience is also important to the hiring manager. Should a hiring manager wish to involve an engineer in the hiring process, it can be accomplished without the engineer leaving her or his desk, and still be able to address technical questions and concerns of a job candidate instantaneously. Making it convenient is the biggest hallmark of the success of a virtual job fair. Taking this a little further, it also means that the virtual job fair must be easy to participate from behind firewalls in case a working professional chooses to attend from the office. It goes without saying that the virtual job fair then must enjoy timely customer support during any hour that has been chosen by the fair organizers. It is all about making it convenient for the job candidate and the recruiter in terms of getting the required customer support for an easy and seamless experience. Respecting the time of all participants is paramount. To assume that the job candidate, hiring managers or recruiters have a lot of time to spend on the Internet is a fallacy. That leads us to the next C - Crisp.

b) Crisp: Time is a scarce resource. Let us not forget that the hiring manager, recruiter and the job candidate, each have a specific need - to be able to find one another, to find the right fit, and to connect as quickly as possible armed with as much information as possible. Virtual job fairs work best when they are used to facilitate and swiftly arrange for a phone conversation or an email follow-up leading to a phone conversation. Throwing too much technology at the users is inconsiderate and counter-productive. The second most important hallmark of a successful virtual job fair is to keep it simple and crisp, serving as a tool to establish an instant connection between the job giver and the job seeker. Anything else that interferes with this ultimate objective is a waste of time and therefore money. Keeping all the content in the virtual job fair concise, keeping the navigation consistent and predictable is very important. Of course, all of the convenience and conciseness you offer in a virtual job fair is meaningless if the content is not current, taking us to the next C -Current.

c) Current: Even if your virtual job fair is being created out of an existing database of job candidates or an existing job listing pool, and even if it is easy to simply pull all of that data into a virtual job fair venue, I would urge to resist the temptation to serve old wine in a new bottle. My recommendation would be to leave certain pieces of information out of any automated data transfers, and mandate that the job fair participants - both employers and job candidates demonstrate their commitment by making current their job listings and résumés respectively, as well as their contact information. Employers will tell you how frustrating it is to find interesting résumés that are outdated, emails that bounce back and phones numbers that never ring. In the same vein, job candidates will tell you how exasperating it is to go through job listings, fill out an application form, click on the 'apply' button only to find that the job posting has 'expired' or is 'not available any longer'. Keep all content in the virtual job fair current, and you will have a winner.

The first steps towards building a brand

To keep all content in a virtual job fair current, it is also important that the job fair has a specific start and an end. A virtual job fair with a defined time-frame is successful for the following few reasons. It is not reasonable to expect hiring managers to be online 'staffing' virtual booths for more than a few hours. Hiring processes have a life-cycle, and matters have to move beyond the initial screening that the virtual job fair painlessly allows. When a virtual job fair is closed, it is best to open pre-registration and pre-announce the next virtual job fair. A pre-announced calendar of job fairs helps sustain the momentum of the first fair. It gives job candidates something to look forward to. It gives recruiters a breather. Most of all, it helps the job fair organizer build a brand for the job fair. Based on our experience, if you deliver virtual job fairs in brief spells of time, and also use it in conjunction with face-to-face job fairs, you will experience measurable success. One must remember that the Internet works best when used as a tool to enhance human interaction.

The author, Ramesh Sambasivan is the co-founder of iTradeFair.com, Inc. Thanks to Grant Hartman, a virtual event manager and social networking evangelist at iTradeFair.com for valuable edits to the article.

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