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Organising a Virtual Career Fair? Begin right here

The coming of Covid-19 has unexpectedly revolutionized the digital world. Like it, there have been many events in the past that led to major transitions and initiated a change in the global scenario. And this is what is happening exactly once again. The world has, in the past one year gone through so much and is continuing to evolve rapidly.

The events industry section is one such that has had a tremendous effect. Unable to execute them, considering the social distancing norms, events have now turned online and transitioned to executing virtual forms of events of their physical ones. Let's go ahead and see how Covid-19 affected the employment sector and event organizations.

If you are a Career or a Job Fair event organiser planning to bring together numerous companies on your platform and help them connect with the right talent, here is what you need to consider before you roll out a Virtual Career Fair:

You can reach out to a larger group of candidates i.e., worldwide from anywhere in the world. Virtual Events know no geographical boundaries and can have attendees from different parts of the world.

Reaching target audiences has become easier than ever and your Virtual Job Fair can be either an industry-specific career fair or a much more comprehensive one with jobs from different industries - all clubbed into one Virtual Job Fair.

You can have multiple webinars wherein you can invite experts from different industries or career experts to speak to the candidates who attend the Virtual Job Fair event. This provides a fair share of opportunity to the experts from a particular industry to talk about companies, their culture and values, work, career growth and so much more.

Webinars are also an opportunity for companies and sponsors to highlight themselves during the event with the right branding opportunities.

(This can be rightfully done by ibentos Virtual Job Fair platform who has immense branding opportunities built in their platform for the right kind of visibility and exposure.

You can hold comprehensive panel discussions too, in order to highlight and ignite further discussion about job opportunities in a particular industry. This will in turn benefit the attendees and help them gain better insights before they begin their career or look for further career growth.

Once you have your plan, an important part of executing the Virtual Job fair is selecting the right Virtual Event Platform.  With an event platform such as ibentos, factors like execution and budget are an easy affair. Be it a small or a large fair, their approach to all events is customized according to an organizer’s demands. And this is what sets them apart from the vast pool of virtual event platforms available in the market today.

With ibentos, you can have the liberty to hold multiple events and have different networking opportunities according to geographical locations. For example, the apt networking application in India is WhatsApp whereas in China it is WeChat. In ibentos, your choice of networking option can be integrated without any hassle.

All events need to be marketed well before they are ready to go LIVE. Therefore, a suitable marketing strategy is important for you attendees or candidates to know about your event and attend it.

ibentos has multiple marketing solutions integrated into their virtual event platform that helps you reach out to your target audience and not miss out on your leads.

All events must have takeaways and it stands true for virtual events too. Your Virtual Job Fair can have workshops - that can be industry-specific or on the requirements of job seekers in the market. This will provide an opportunity for the candidates to benefit from the virtual job fair event.

How to keep the audience engaged?

Keeping the audience glued to your virtual platform is an essential part of your Virtual Career fair. It is all about audience engagement and interaction at the end of the day! Therefore, the more you include activities like workshops or webinars, as part of your event, the better for your event.

Remember, you must aim to serve the best to all attendees at a virtual event/show majorly for their share of takeaways. And ibentos can help you do this, with the right strategies and formats. Reach out to them, if you’re planning on organizing a Virtual Career Fair or a Virtual Job Fair. 

Resource: https://ibentos.wordpress.com/2021/10/11/organising-a-virtual-career-fair-begin-right-here/

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