iCoast Virtual Job Fair Guidelines iCoast Virtual Job Fair Guidelines


 

Welcome Message
Virtual Job Fair Program
How to Join and Participate


Welcome Message

Welcome to the InternetCoast Virtual Job Fair.  This is the first of its kind in South Florida and based on the current economic climate, we felt the timing was right.  The InternetCoast is conducting a job fair to address the challenges of matching employers with potential employees in our region. This project got its start due to an article that ran in the South Florida Business Journal where they interviewed Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix.  In the article, Mark commented on the challenges Citrix has finding local IT talent.  Soon after that article appeared, the InternetCoast Advisory Board had its meeting and this topic came up.  There was agreement from some of the CEOs on the board that they too have positions and have challenges sourcing qualified candidates.  The Board felt that the InternetCoast organization was in the unique position that they could assist and coordinate a virtual Job Fair prior to the end of the year so that the employers can get qualified candidates to begin 2009 with.  Especially in the current economic environment the more we can do to match open positions with available talent, we felt this could be a valuable initiative.
 
Responses received from our newsletter blasts, we've had numerous inquiries from employers looking to hire various positions relating to IT. These positions include a wide range of technical, administrative, training, and sales positions as well as middle and senior management positions.
 
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Virtual Job Fair Program
 
InternetCoast will allow IT Employers to post their job descriptions on the Florida 2.0 website with all of them completed by the end of the day on Friday December 5th, 2008. The Florida 2.0 site is a social networking site aimed at connecting, technology, health, government and education to increase collaboration.  Potential employees will have until Friday, December 12th to post their resumes in response to specific openings on the site. Once that is completed, the employers can review the applicants, schedule interviews and move forward on their own.  The only requirements we are asking for from the employers is that they provide on January 30th and again on February 27th the number of interviews conducted and the number of jobs offered and accepted.
 
To offset the expense of this effort, we will be charging applicants a $10 fee to submit their resumes.  Listing companies will have a charge of $100 flat fee regardless of the number of jobs posted.  For Recruiting and Personnel agencies, the charge will be $200 and we want only actual jobs listed on the site, not "placeholder" listings for general positions.  This should eliminate spam Job Seekers and ensure that the companies posting have real positions available.
 
We will track the number of jobs posted, number of resume's submitted and once we are completed (end of February) and publish the results.  At the end of the process, we will send out online surveys tracking how effective employers found this virtual job fair.

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How to Join and Participate

The navigation hierarchy of the internetCoast Virtual Job Fair is:

FL2i Main page
    Discussions Tab
        Job Fair Category
            Company Thread
                Job Opening Thread
                    Applicant Reply

Once you have paid the participation fee to InternetCoast, the procedure is very simple:

 

If you represent a participating company:

  • Post one thread on the Job Fair page with the name of your company (only one thread per company). Enter the Subject of the thread as: “Company Name”. Describe your company on the text editor window. Add one or more tags if you feel that it will facilitate search or add meaning to other participants in the Job Fair (e.g., company’s industry, company size, company location, etc.). Save the company thread.
  • Click on the company thread link and create a new reply for each job opening (always replying to the first thread, which has the name of your company as subject). Enter the Subject of the reply thread as: “Company Name Job Opening” (e.g., Citrix Programmer). Enter the job description on the text editor window. Add one or more tags if you feel that it will facilitate search or add meaning to other participants in the Job Fair (e.g., synonyms of the job position like programmer - software developer). Save the job reply post.
  • Go back to the company’s thread page and continue on adding new job opening replies (be careful not to reply to another job opening, always remember to reply to the first thread, which has the name of your company as subject). If there are more than one job openings for the same job position, add each reply thread individually using the same Subject.
  • Once applicants start to participate in the Virtual Job Fair, you can now reply to their posts by visiting each job opening threads.


PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOU HAVE TO JOIN THE SOCIAL NETWORK AND SIGN IN BEFORE YOU CAN ADD COMPANY THREADS AND POST JOB OPENING REPLIES.

If you are an applicant interested in a job:

  • Visit the Job Fair page, select the company you are interested in and browse job openings by participating company following the hierarchy above. You can also use the search engine to look for specific job positions.
  • Once the InternetCoast Virtual Job Fair opens for applicants, go to each job opening thread that you are interested on and click on the Reply button to respond. You can add your resume or just the information that you feel comfortable with. Remember that this information is public so if you are concerned about your privacy, only post general information and wait for the company to respond and request additional information that you can submit via e-mail, mail or a face-to-face interview. You are responsible for the information that you publish.
  • If you want to post your resume for all participating companies, clck here.
  • If you want to reply with questions or information about your skills for a specific job offering of one of the companies, please reply directly to one of the company's job offerings accessed after selecting the company on this page.


PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOU HAVE TO JOIN THE SOCIAL NETWORK AND SIGN IN BEFORE YOU CAN REPLY TO JOB OPENING THREADS.

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