Virtual careers fairs
Careers fairs are always popular events at universities around the world. They are a good opportunity for student to meet prospective employers and ask them all the pertinent questions that students ask, like how far the office is from the nearest pub, or what the salary’s like, or what the perks are…
Virtual careers fairs are a natural extension of their real-life counterparts. The benefits of holding a careers fair online are many: employers have to spend less to attend, they can be spead over long periods of time, and students can access information at a time suitable to them, to name but three benefits.
However, there do not seem to be any commercial-grade virtual fair applications to allow educational establishments to be able to run their own fairs. A few universities have to date made their own custom applications, but I think that a general purpose one that can be customised may be welcomed in the education sector as an easy way of getting information to students as well as getting them interested in work and also the careers services that many universities run.