It is with great sadness that we inform you that the era of the LasVegasSun.com Career Fairs has come to an end. Several factors influenced our decision to cease production of the quarterly career fairs including: the troubled economy, lack of available jobs, decreased employer participation and declining job seeker attendance. Job fairs were once a popular and productive meeting ground where employers could source, screen and hire qualified employees and job seekers could meet and interview with dozens of employers in one day. Today, job fairs do not accomplish that. With the advent of online applications, social media web sites and employer held open houses and hiring events; the days of job fair as we know them are numbered.
In the upcoming months we will develop a new prototype (Career Fair 2.0) that will incorporate the successes found in the job seeker seminar series and integrate those into a social networking environment that appeals to both the job seeker and employer. The environment created will lead to qualified job referrals and allow us to achieve the goal of "putting Las Vegas back to work."
EDITOR'S NOTE: The above NBA release was written by Doug Geinzer. Doug and the NBA have worked together for almost fifteen years in partnership to provide quality job fairs for Nevada's radio and television stations. Prior to the LasVegasSun.com Career Fairs / Opportunity Boulevard Career Fairs -- we sponsored job fairs (working with Doug and Jim Stock) under the umbrella of JobsAmerica. These job fairs were held at Cashman Field in Las Vegas and would typically attract over 5,000 job seekers.
