Bayt.com, the Middle East No#1 Job Site will play host to the second edition of Virtual Job Fair between October11 and October15,2009 in Jordan. In a bid to boost the labour market in the country, Bayt.com’s Virtual Job Fair will provide a unique opportunity for job seekers to search for jobs, submit their CVs and interact with employers – in what has been hailed as one of the most convenient and hassle-free recruitment forums available today.
The second edition of the virtual job fair, in co-operation with media partners Al Ghad and main Sponsor Royal Jordanian, will provide job seekers the easy and unique option to “attend” the job fair from any internet-accessible computer and submit their resumes to participating companies of interest, while enabling local, regional and international employers to establish an active talent-seeking presence, without physically being in a location.
Bayt.com’s Unit Manager – Jordan, Rania Musallam said, “We are excited to bring the second edition of the Virtual Job Fair to Jordan and confident that this time, it will prove to be even bigger than last year. The unique proposition of bringing active job seekers to interact directly with employers irrespective of location, added cost, confidentiality and convenience is what makes the initiative immensely popular”.
The innovative virtual Job fair will have all the ingredients of physical job fair, the only difference being it would be online with features such as animated branded3D “virtual booths” for participating exhibitors to sport their names and logos; in addition to providing access to a range of information about the company, their corporate culture, the company’s business activities and recruitment practices.
Visitors to the Bayt.com VJF can benefit from features such as CV drop option enabling job seekers to directly submit their resumes to the booths of their choice and apply for advertised jobs; and the opportunity for employers and job seekers to interact in real time via online or video chat. A series of links will enable job seekers to connect to a directory of current vacancies in a particular company, avoiding the hassle of having to root through various job postings.
“Hosting the second VJF in Jordan demonstrates our commitment to boosting the country’s labour market especially during these challenging economic times with the ever-rising number of highly qualified unemployed professionals,. Online recruitment has for some time now been playing a fundamental role in the way companies recruit their staff in the region and by hosting this fair, we hope to boost the speed, efficiency and scale with which job seekers find work, and employers fill their talent gap – to ensure a brighter future for all stakeholders in the region,” added Musallam.
The Virtual Job Fair offers a variety of significant advantages to job seekers and employers alike. 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.
Employers can save themselves travel and accommodation costs as well as the costs of stand building and maintenance involved at physical job fairs – allowing for savings of more than50%. Moreover, following the event; employers have the option to immediately measure the success of the Bayt.com Virtual Job Fair for their organization, with advanced and accurate reporting tools.
“At Al Ghad, we are committed to supporting innovative initiatives such as Bayt.com’s Virtual Job Fair for the benefit of our readers and the community at large. Such pioneering events will not only facilitate employment promotion across sectors and career levels; but will be instrumental in changing the face of recruitment as we know it. We are proud to be partnered with such a commendable initiative and are confident that the community and professionals alike with benefit and see the true value of this initiative,” added Mohammed Srour - Sales & Marketing Manager,at Al Ghad- the event’s Media Partner.
Also participating in the event are Royal Jordanian- Jordan’s VJF Main Sponsor, Jordan Telecom, Four Seasons Hotel, Modern Horizon, Darwish Al- Khalili, Protech, Nisr Al-Arabi, eSense Software Solutions and many more.
The VJF has been extremely popular with many employers at the forefront of the recruitment industry, who can 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 and hire the region’s best.
For more information and to find out how to participate in Bayt.com’s Virtual Job Fair log on to www.bayt.com and click on the Virtual Job Fair banner/button.