How to Make Job Fairs Worth the Effort!

I'm in attendance at the Joblinc Career Fair at the Memphis Public Library on Poplar Avenue, and have been since leaving the Tennessee DOL Workforce Development Career Center on Walnut Grove early this morning. It is one of several typical job fairs that I've attended...

How many have you attended, under the impression that participating companies would be hiring on the spot? You dress up, and stand in long lines with print-outs of your resume, only to be distributed information regarding the companys' online application processes, information that you could have acquired from visiting those websites in the first...

So maybe the hosts of those job fairs provided the benefit of informing you that attending companies are actively hiring, and, certainly, getting out and interacting with company representatives and other leads can be impactful.

The reason, nonetheless, that traditional job fairs are essentially a waste of time and resources is due to the typical arrangement of events, which, for the most part, makes it no more practical for employers to determine who's the better candidate for their openings.

To resolve this, company representatives should be prepared to and actually conduct interviews during the events, which might consist of sample work assignments, where practical, sessions that could be video-recorded for further perusal by hiring managers.

This would require some company delegates to be assigned to private/quiet meeting rooms where those interviews and work assignments would be conducted, while others are posted at company booths...

This would help recruiters to best decide from among multiple attending applicants and/or interviewees (who they'd see and more meaningfully interact with) who'd be called in for additional rounds of interviews and ultimate hire.

Why The Employment/Income of All Persons Should Concern and Acquire the Endorsement of All

The employment/income of all persons should concern especially all companies, which would not exist if there were no employed individuals working for their and companies other than their own. Simply put, the more people are working the more they’ll shop and spend. 

Discriminatory practices that have existed since and prior to the dawning of this country have not only limited opportunities for especially minorities and women of all races, they have also stagnated the potential growth of business at essentially all companies. Consumer markets are lacking revenues that unemployed and underemployed individuals would spend if they were sufficiently employed and subjected to proper treatment...

The Civil Rights Movement helped us to see this to a significant extent via its persuasion of legislation that barred discriminatory hiring and employment practices and by addressing the disparate treatment of especially African Americans as human citizens, consumers, and tax payers, etc.

Businesses saw the power of the minority dollar, when juxtaposing their revenues prior to, during, and after boycotts that called for especially African Americans, as those most affected by racial discrimination, to stop spending money with companies that discriminated against them.

Racism and other forms of discrimination have not been completely eliminated, however. Though conditions have certainly improved for African Americans and other minorities (women included), in some respects, things are just as worse as they were prior to the Civil Rights Movement and even the Civil War, and this is yet as injurious to all businesses as it is to subjects of discrimination.

Not all incidences of unemployment and underemployment are discriminatory in nature, of course, but all companies can benefit from endorsing the employment and/or advancement of all individuals who are capable of working; and they should do so because it’s the noble thing to do, and doing so would increase revenues for all businesses and/or provide other benefits like decreased inflation, taxes, etc. once more people are earning, spending, and paying income taxes...

An excellent program of sort is the Walmart Going Places Network, which not only helps job seekers gain employment with Walmart, it assists any participating job candidates with acquiring employment anywhere that they desire, which is great for both parties either way. 

Though I myself am not particularly interested in employment with Walmart, they are one of my very favorite places to shop, so when I’m employed in a position of interest to me, Walmart will acquire a significant sum of my earnings, and I’m certain that Walmart has acquired a greater customer base as a result of its Going Places Network program.  

Consumer Research on Shopping Habits of Job Seekers to Influence Company Endorsements

Some companies might elect to be selfish here and endorse job candidates who are regular shoppers at their places of business. An ideal method of acquiring/retaining consumer spending habits is via personalized and interactive digital receipts.

In Summation

All companies especially should endorse the employment and advancement of/ income for all people because the more sufficiently employed people are or the more income they have the more they'll spend, and when the needs of people are are met, furthermore, the more we'll all enjoy peace and public tranquility. 

Implementing Work Trials to Acquire Best Hires

Many companies have likely declined opportunities to applicants who would have been the best hires for the jobs that they were seeking. The chosen ones managed, perhaps, to pen or present the most impressive resumes and/or put their best feet forward during the interviews, or were more attractive by other recruitment criteria. The best candidate for the job in theory is not always the best in practice, however...

A nifty way for human resource managers to determine and select the best candidate for a position is to implement work trials that might involve one or several potential candidates working simultaneously or in succession, and performing some or all of the relevant job duties associated with the position they’re applying for.

Employment trials could last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours or a few days, or even months, at the employer’s discretion, and could either be paid or a non-paid component of the interview/training process.

The very best performing applicants would win the jobs, of course, while others gain valuable knowledge during these brief ventures, including feedback from host companies, and impressive experience to carry forward.