Monster Addresses Economic Crisis with Innovative Career Fair that Will Make More Than 140 Stops to Help Job Seekers Find Available Jobs in a Challenging Environment
MAYNARD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 19, 2009--
The national tour of the Keep America Working career fairs sponsored by Monster.com®,
the leading global online career and recruitment resource and flagship
brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW), travels to the Great Lakes
region this week in a journey that will include more than 140 stops
across the nation throughout 2009. Since the tour was piloted in Boston
at the end of February, 775 employers with 15,625 jobs to fill have met
with more than 25,000 qualified job seekers ready to fill them. Thus
far, the tour has included job fairs in Boston; New York City;
Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; Whippany, New Jersey; Cincinnati;
Indianapolis; Chicago; Minneapolis; Nashville; Charlotte; Raleigh;
Orlando; Atlanta; Jacksonville; Miami; Phoenix; Las Vegas; Denver;
Houston; Dallas; Seattle; San Francisco; Los Angeles; Anaheim; San Diego
and Kansas City, Missouri. The 15,625 jobs represented at the fairs are
backed up by tens of thousands of jobs listed on Monster.com in these 25
metropolitan areas. This week the tour will stop today in Milwaukee, in
Detroit on May 21 and in Chicago on May 22.
At the core of the Keep
America Working Tour is Monster’s mission to help rebuild the
American workforce. The company presents these job fairs free of charge
to both job seekers and Monster employers with current job openings to
eliminate any cost barrier and encourage the greatest number of
employers with available jobs to link face-to-face with people who need
those jobs.
Using an innovative model that goes well beyond the traditional career
fair, the Keep
America Working Tour brings together the tools and expertise job
seekers need not only to find a job, but also to help manage their
careers. Job seekers who attend the career fairs can learn from
Monster’s career experts by attending live theater presentations
that provide the advice and techniques they need to truly stand out from
the crowd in today’s tough job market. They can see Monster's new career
management tools and experience the all-new Monster.com.
And finally, they can make the most of the on-site opportunity to meet
face-to-face with market-leading employers with job opportunities.
Employers who attend get to meet the highly qualified candidates they
need to strengthen their recruiting pipelines and fill their open
positions in an efficient manner.
"I had stopped using job fairs as a recruiting option. They just were
not that effective. You’d talk to a few people and then you’d sit for a
while. There was just too much downtime,” said Loretta Moye, Human
Resources manager at Absolute Collection Service, headquartered
in Raleigh, North Carolina. “The Keep America Working job fair in
Raleigh changed my outlook. A lot of people attended and, even with the
crowd, it was very organized. The candidates I talked to were
experienced and diverse. I was looking for people with sales and
medical backgrounds and I found them. I ended up hiring
more than 15 people from the fair to fill medical collector and
insurance follow up vacancies.
“I would absolutely recommend Monster’s Keep America Working career
fairs to other employers who have jobs to fill,” Moye continued. “The
fair I attended in Raleigh was well-run, the candidates were attentive
and well-prepared, and to be frank, in the more than twenty years I have
worked in human resources I don’t ever remember a job fair where there
wasn’t a cost to the recruiters. These fairs are free.”
For more information about the job fairs in Monster’s Keep America
Working Tour, visit http://monstervjf.adicio.com/.
About Monster Worldwide
Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW), parent company of Monster, the
premier global online employment solution for more than a decade,
strives to inspire people to improve their lives. With a local presence
in key markets in North America, Europe, and Asia, Monster works for
everyone by connecting employers with quality job seekers at all levels
and by providing personalized career advice to consumers globally.
Through online media sites and services, Monster delivers vast, highly
targeted audiences to advertisers. Monster Worldwide is a member of the
S&P 500 index. To learn more about Monster's industry-leading products
and services, visit www.monster.com.
More information about Monster Worldwide is available at http://corporate.monster.com.
Source: Monster Worldwide, Inc.
Press:
Monster
Steve
Sylven, 978-461-8503 or 978-201-6198
steve.sylven@monster.com
or
Ketchum
Laura
Ryan, 646-935-3970
laura.ryan@ketchum.com
