1,500 Jobseekers Pre-Registered for Opportunity Boulevard Career Fair

Posted on November 8, 2007
Filed Under Community Partnerships, Healthcare, Local Level Recruiting, Out of Market Recruiting, Job Fairs, Older Worker, Best Practices |

We always download a list of pre-registered jobseekers for upcoming Opportunity Boulevard Career Fairs a week before the event to get a gauge on the volume and the quality of anticipated attendance. I was absolutely shocked when I saw we already had 1,500 pre-registered jobseekers. Typically we have around 800 more than a week away from the event.

The largest volume comes the week prior to the event due to Recruiting Nevada’s aggressive e-mail marketing campaign to jobseekers and the plethora of radio ads played by our partners over at the Nevada Broadcasters Association.

Some interesting demographics I was able to pull from the pre-registrations were:

Over 10% of pre-registered attendees are from out-of-state
There are over 60 Accounting Professionals pre-registered
Over 120 healthcare professionals are already registered
A couple of dozen engineers and sales professionals are registered

If these indicators are accurate - I suspect over 4,000 professional jobseekers will attend this event.

It will be interesting to get the final tally after I return from the International Association of Employment Web Sites Annual Congress in Orlando, Florida. Yes - I will not be attending the event myself - I had a conflict in my schedule with this conference. I wish I could be there.

If you have not registered yet, and wish to do so, you can register here.