Due to heavy traffic and unprecedented Job seeker interest, Bayt.com, the Middle East’s number one job site, announced today that it will be extending its first ever virtual job fair in KSA. The job fair, which was originally planned for five days between the22nd and26th November, will now stay live until the28th of November2008 offering both employers and job seekers a convenient and hassle-free opportunity to interact and discuss recruitment opportunities.
The first of its kind career event is sponsored by Rawabi Holding along with media partner OKAZ which aims to effectively connect qualified job seeking candidates with gainful career opportunities. Candidates have the easy and unique option to ‘attend’ the job fair from any Internet-accessible computer and submit their resumes to participating companies of interest at all times, while enabling local, regional and international employers to establish an active talent-seeking presence, without physically being in a location.
“At Bayt.com we are committed to developing innovative methods and continually facilitating the process for employers to actively find, interact with, and recruit relevant job seekers; and for job seekers to easily research the newest and most exciting vacancies from some of the best employers in KSA’s and throughout the region,” commented Bayt.com’s Unit Manager, Mohammad Haj.
As part of the initiative, Bayt.com has set up animated3D “Virtual Booths” on the website for different companies participating in the job fair, and each booth is, as in a physical job fair, branded with the exhibitors’ names and logos and provides access to a range of information about the company, including its corporate culture, objectives and recruitment practices.
The job fair also provided a wide and unique range of benefits for job seekers, explained Mr. Haj; “Full-time professionals who are seeking employment might not have the time to attend job fairs, and so the virtual version is an efficient and convenient method for them to find new openings without taking time off work. Furthermore, the Virtual Job Fair provides complete confidentiality to every candidate, regardless of which company or which job he/she applies to; and removes all the associated costs in terms of travel or transportation to get to a physical venue.”
Other features of the innovative Bayt.com Virtual Job Fair include a CV drop option for job seekers to directly submit their CV to the booths of their choice and directly apply for advertised jobs; and an option for employers and job seekers to interact in real time via online chat. In addition, a series of links enable job seekers to easily connect to a directory of current vacancies in a particular company, avoiding the hassle of having to root through various job postings.
In turn, the Bayt.com Virtual Job Fair has provided employers with the ideal forum to increase brand awareness about their company’s unique attributes, and has allowed organizations to advertise their job vacancies on the Middle East’s number one job site, benefiting from the unique fact that Bayt.com already has over well2.5 million registered users from over94 industries and182 countries.
For employers and professional recruiters, participating in the online job fair has meant minimizing the hassle, time, and resource requirements often associated with event management at a brick and mortar job fair; allowing for cost savings of up to50%, and maximizing their organization’s HR ROI. Following the event; employers will have the option to measure the success of the virtual job fair for their organization, with advanced and accurate reporting tools.
"At Rawabi Holding our human resources are our most vital asset and we pride ourselves on employing the most sophisticated and advanced methods to recruit and retain our top talent. The Bayt.com Virtual Job fair falls in line with our unwavering commitment to hiring the very best and we are confident this pioneering venture by Bayt.com will be an unprecedented success as we have come to expect from the Middle East's #1 job site." Maher Al Ismail, Group HR & Training Manager
“An event such as this is an ideal forum for really bringing together job seekers and employers in the increasingly technology-savvy business environment. Online recruitment has a fundamental role to play in the way that companies recruit their staff today in the region, and by holding an event such as this, all sectors will be able to see that due to the sophistication of today’s online recruitment, it is a very efficient and convenient process for securing employment,” concluded Mr. Haj.
The Virtual Job Fair can be accessed online by any professional JobSeeker for FREE until November28,2008. For more information and to participate in Bayt.com’s KSA Virtual Job Fair and explore the KSA’s top current career opportunities, simply log on to www.bayt.com and click on the virtual job fair banner/button.