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As published on page A1/A10 on March 6, 2004
Third edition of virtual career fair boasts 2,500+ jobs, runs March 29 to April 5 on canadaeast
Premier Bernard Lord's mission to bring well-trained New Brunswickers back home and promote good jobs for current residents is showing results.
Days after he returned from a tour of Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto where he hosted repatriation events to lure people back to their home province, Lord announced his government's Department of Training and Employment Development is teaming up with New Brunswick's four daily newspapers and Canadaeast.com to stage the third edition of the history-making Virtual Career Fair/Expo d'emploi virtuelle.
Final statistics from the first two fairs, held in 2003, show a total of 2,227 New Brunswickers found jobs as a result of the unique events, of which 179 were repatriated New Brunswickers.
"These virtual career fairs are a unique tool to reach New Brunswickers both at home and away and let them know what jobs are available. Because it has no geographic or time boundaries, people
can learn about the jobs and apply for them from anywhere and at anytime, making it much more flexible than the traditional job fair," said Lord.
The bilingual fair, to be held March 29 to April 5 on line at Canadaeast.com, is expected to feature more than 2,500 jobs, a direct link to the provincial government's repatriation site, company profiles, a r閟um?building tool, scheduled interactive chats and an extensive promotional package.
Training and Employment Development Minister Margaret-Ann Blaney said the virtual job fair is a creative initiative that so far has brought thousands of potential employees and companies together.
"It is a terrific opportunity for us to partner with Canadaeast on this because it fits very well with our investing in people and with our repatriation program," she said.
"While we do have a number of job fairs we host around the province, this is a wonderful opportunity to reach out nationally to New Brunswickers who are living far and wide and entice them to come home."
Blaney said she was particularly impressed by the partnership between government and the newspapers that produced the fair, and how the jobs ranged form chief executive officers to blue collar.
"It is a terrific menu."
Meanwhile, the Canadaeast.com virtual job fair has been lauded by other provincial governments as an innovative way to match job hunters with potential employers.
"I think this virtual job fair is a really good idea," says Betty Notar, the assistant deputy minister of the British Columbia Ministry of Skills, Development and Labour.
Colin Lemoine, spokesman for Manitoba's Ministry of Industry, Economic Development and Mines, called the virtual job fair a new technique and an interesting idea.
With just three weeks before the fair launches, Canadaeast.com editor John Wishart says the number of job postings in the Career Fair database is growing rapidly.
"When we staged our first online career fair in June of 2003, we started with 1,000 jobs and ended the week with about 1,800. By the second fair, held Nov. 25 to Dec. 1, we had 2,700 jobs listed."
"We know that people participated in our fairs in an unprecedented way," he added.
"In seven days, the career fair logged 1.1 million page views, and registered 150,000 unique visits. As well, close to 1,500 r閟um閟 have been created using our on-line r閟um?building tool."
Reviews from industry were just as positive.
"We have had a tremendous response, the best response we have ever had to any sort of recruiting effort," said Darren Alders, the Atlantic Canada recruitment training manager for Humpty Dumpty.
"I was also very happy with the presentation of our corporate profile."
He said Humpty Dumpty received at least 30 r閟um閟 via fax and e-mail, each mentioning in their cover letter they were referred by the Virtual Career Fair. Alders said the quality of the applicants was very high.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
As published on page A1/A10 on March 6, 2004
Third edition of virtual career fair boasts 2,500+ jobs, runs March 29 to April 5 on canadaeast
Premier Bernard Lord's mission to bring well-trained New Brunswickers back home and promote good jobs for current residents is showing results.
Days after he returned from a tour of Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto where he hosted repatriation events to lure people back to their home province, Lord announced his government's Department of Training and Employment Development is teaming up with New Brunswick's four daily newspapers and Canadaeast.com to stage the third edition of the history-making Virtual Career Fair/Expo d'emploi virtuelle.
Final statistics from the first two fairs, held in 2003, show a total of 2,227 New Brunswickers found jobs as a result of the unique events, of which 179 were repatriated New Brunswickers.
"These virtual career fairs are a unique tool to reach New Brunswickers both at home and away and let them know what jobs are available. Because it has no geographic or time boundaries, people
can learn about the jobs and apply for them from anywhere and at anytime, making it much more flexible than the traditional job fair," said Lord.
The bilingual fair, to be held March 29 to April 5 on line at Canadaeast.com, is expected to feature more than 2,500 jobs, a direct link to the provincial government's repatriation site, company profiles, a r閟um?building tool, scheduled interactive chats and an extensive promotional package.
Training and Employment Development Minister Margaret-Ann Blaney said the virtual job fair is a creative initiative that so far has brought thousands of potential employees and companies together.
"It is a terrific opportunity for us to partner with Canadaeast on this because it fits very well with our investing in people and with our repatriation program," she said.
"While we do have a number of job fairs we host around the province, this is a wonderful opportunity to reach out nationally to New Brunswickers who are living far and wide and entice them to come home."
Blaney said she was particularly impressed by the partnership between government and the newspapers that produced the fair, and how the jobs ranged form chief executive officers to blue collar.
"It is a terrific menu."
Meanwhile, the Canadaeast.com virtual job fair has been lauded by other provincial governments as an innovative way to match job hunters with potential employers.
"I think this virtual job fair is a really good idea," says Betty Notar, the assistant deputy minister of the British Columbia Ministry of Skills, Development and Labour.
Colin Lemoine, spokesman for Manitoba's Ministry of Industry, Economic Development and Mines, called the virtual job fair a new technique and an interesting idea.
With just three weeks before the fair launches, Canadaeast.com editor John Wishart says the number of job postings in the Career Fair database is growing rapidly.
"When we staged our first online career fair in June of 2003, we started with 1,000 jobs and ended the week with about 1,800. By the second fair, held Nov. 25 to Dec. 1, we had 2,700 jobs listed."
"We know that people participated in our fairs in an unprecedented way," he added.
"In seven days, the career fair logged 1.1 million page views, and registered 150,000 unique visits. As well, close to 1,500 r閟um閟 have been created using our on-line r閟um?building tool."
Reviews from industry were just as positive.
"We have had a tremendous response, the best response we have ever had to any sort of recruiting effort," said Darren Alders, the Atlantic Canada recruitment training manager for Humpty Dumpty.
"I was also very happy with the presentation of our corporate profile."
He said Humpty Dumpty received at least 30 r閟um閟 via fax and e-mail, each mentioning in their cover letter they were referred by the Virtual Career Fair. Alders said the quality of the applicants was very high.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net