Project Description

An annual recruiting & training event that designed to connect businesses with job seekers from international background, culture and work experience.

OBJECTIVES

International Career Fair was started as a specialty event ensuring recruiters and job seekers with international backgrounds were on the same page, looking for the same things.

  • Focus on attracting recruits with international backgrounds
  • Highlight IDO Media clients as firms looking for international workers
  • Cultivate Manitoba-based Chinese talent through networking and seminars

CHALLENGES

Typical career fair formats tend to be seen as a “shotgun approach” to recruiting and may not favour visible minority groups. International Career Fair was designed to address this and other common event hosting challenges.

  • Communicating the value of international backgrounds to domestic firms
  • New career fair offerings such as seminars need to be developed
  • Monetization challenges as capacity limits reached with free attendance

RESULTS

International Career Fair has been a terrific resource for both attendees and recruiters each year, sparking new government relations and rivalling domestic career fairs as it has grown.

  • New formats led to relationships with government and non-profit groups
  • Hundreds of attendees hired by recruiters each year
  • Part of IDO Media’s corporate social responsibility contributions

HEAD OFFICE
1B-1455 WAVERLEY STREET
WINNIPEG, MB R3T 0P7

BUSINESS HOURS
MON – FRI
9AM – 5PM