Bayt.com, the Middle East’s number one job site, recently welcomed more than5450 visitors to its second Virtual Job Fair (VJF) in Egypt, which ran on the Bayt.com website between11 and15 July. The online job fair, which aimed to address the country’s unemployment, especially as a result of the challenging market conditions, gave employers and job seekers the opportunity to interact in a convenient, private and efficient forum. VJF Egypt2010 recorded over35,000 total views, and received over12,500 registrations.
“Our job fair and innovative recruitment methods went a long way in promoting employment. Judging by the success of our second Egypt VJF, virtual job fairs are now surpassing traditional methods as the recruitment option of choice by both job seekers and leading organizations in the region,” commented Amer Zureikat, Vice President Sales Bayt.com
The VJF is extremely popular with employers at the forefront of the recruitment industry, who see the benefits and importance of state-of-the-art employer branding activities and are prepared to tap into the most advanced technologies to harness the power of the web to interact with top talent on a real-time basis in order to hire the region’s best.
“We at Yellow pages are always on quest to recruit top talents. Taking part in Egypt’s2nd Virtual Job Fair (VJF) held by Bayt.com was part of the innovative recruitment strategy we support and adopt. Bayt’s creative and advanced technologies used in the VJF gave us not only a wide exposure to a great number of job seekers, but also allowed us to manage the entire recruitment process in a very fast, effective and easy manner, all on a very user-friendly platform. Through Bayt.com’s VJF, we were able to market our brand and position ourselves as a top employer. The entire process from posting our job vacancies online, to attracting relevant candidates, to screening, filtering and communicating instantly with top talents has never been easier! Bayt.com’s VJF provided us with the most interactive environment from the convenience of our own offices, allowing us to save a lot of time and money! Bayt.com has certainly revolutionized the recruitment process with its VJF. We can tell this won’t be our last time,” Makram Abdel Aziz, HR Manager, Yellow pages.
Over the past two years, Bayt.com has hosted more than10 successful online job fairs, which have welcomed job seekers and professionals from across the Middle East region. For the fair, Bayt.com constructs animated3D “virtual booths” on the website for the different participating companies. The virtual booths, like physical job fairs, are branded with the exhibitor’s name and logo and provide visitors access to a range of information about that particular company.
“Throughout the past two years, Bayt.com’s Virtual Job Fairs around the Middle East region have proven to be a very popular and efficient way for job seekers to actively find and apply for employment - all via one central and convenient location,” added Zureikat.
The Virtual Job Fair offers a variety of significant advantages to job seekers and employers alike. For job-seekers, the VJF saves time off work and travel and logistical costs associated with visiting physical job fairs, while providing professionals complete confidentiality and the convenience of participating in the job fair from the comfort of their home or office.
In terms of employer benefits, the virtual job fair provides the ideal forum to increase brand awareness and visibility, and allows organisations to advertise their job vacancies on the Middle East’s number one job site, which already has over4.5 million registered users from over94 industries and185 countries. Participating in the online job fair also minimises the hassle, time, and resource requirements often associated with event management at a physical job fair; allows for cost savings of up to50% and can maximise an organisation’s HR ROI. Post event; employers that participated will have the option to measure the success of the virtual job fair for their organisation, with advanced and accurate reporting tools.
“Bayt.com is renowned worldwide for the strength of its recruitment platforms and technologies and at SmartNet we were very pleased with the performance of the Bayt.com Egypt Virtual Job Fair which enabled us to identify and hold constructive dialogues with highly qualified professionals with very strong backgrounds many of whom are potential recruits for us this year. Given our commitment to the strength and leadership of our people and Bayt.com's commitment to maintaining the most sophisticated and advanced online recruiting tools and platforms in the industry, the Bayt.com Virtual Job Fair has been a key pillar of our recruitment processes this year,” Mohammed Magdi, Owner, SmartNet.
“Bayt.com facilitates as well as enhances the employer-employee connection. We are already screening resumes received at the VJF Egypt2010, especially those received for the following posts: Senior Accountant, Accountant, HR Team Assistant and Executive Assistant,” Salma Nabeel, HR Specialist, Tepco.
For more information and to find out how to participate in Bayt.com’s Virtual Job Fair, log on to https://www.vfairs.com/ or email at vjf@bayt.com