Virtual Hiring Events are the Wave of the Future
When a business has an opening, the task of finding the right person can be totally time-consuming if they have a small personnel department. Or sometimes, small companies expect each department to recruit and hire the people they need.
Particularly when a company has a regular need for certain kinds of workers, a small company’s human resources department can devote way too much valuable time searching for people.
For example, food service workers from servers to cooks, and everyone in between, commonly switch jobs frequently looking for a better job. Keeping the company IT help desk staffed with good people is another area where human resources departments may spend a lot of time looking for talent. Companies that need good mechanics also struggle to keep those slots filled.
This is the number one reason why so many companies and recruiters are turning to virtual hiring events. It saves the sanity of the personnel department when they don’t have to spend most of their time doing interviews, waiting for people who don’t show up, or people who can’t form a sentence.
Virtual Events
Virtual hiring events have a great many advantages over physical job fairs. At the typical physical job fair, the personnel department is responsible for finding a venue, looking for companies to share the cost of the event, hiring setup people, arranging to park for candidates and hundreds of other details.
With a virtual hiring event, the personnel department only needs to contract with a virtual event planning company. Then the employer just sits back and lets the pros do what they do best.
Employer Experience
When employers host a virtual hiring event, they can choose to have it structured however they want. They can host an event totally on their own if they have a lot of openings. Or they can go together with many other employers and set up booths for each company. Or they can join with other employers in their same industry so that all the potential applicants come from the same background.
The employer’s experience at a virtual hiring event is totally different from hosting a physical job fair. The virtual event planning company gives the employer lots of different options to set up the virtual fair however they want to. For example, at a virtual hiring event, a good event platform can be set up to weed out the weak candidates ahead of time.
The platform for the virtual job fair can include a live video welcoming applicants to the fair when it starts, or the fair can be open-ended and applicants can come at different times throughout the day.
It helps to research different virtual platforms ahead of time. Employers should try to choose a company that has worked with the same size company. If you are a large organization, choose a virtual hiring event platform company that has experience with successfully holding fairs for other large organizations. On the other hand, small companies want to make sure their event platform company knows how to handle small companies.
