{"id":1635,"date":"2018-06-05T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vfairs.wpengine.com\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:37:15","slug":"diacs-hybrid-career-fair-aced-innovative-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/case-studies\/diac-hybrid-career-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"DIAC&#8217;s Hybrid Career Fair Aced Innovative Recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Challenges<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a goal to connect 80+ employers and universities with over 10,000 graduate and postgraduate students, DIAC wanted to provide a platform that facilitated matching of candidates to employers without travel, logistics, and inclusivity related limitations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solely relying on a traditional Career Fair setting was just not going to cut it anymore, there was a need to leverage innovation to overcome various obstacles that included:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exhibitors could only recruit from the local talent pool, they lacked access to an international audience.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hiring managers struggled with manual data entry and misplaced resumes; candidate shortlisting was an extremely tedious process.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organizations struggled to establish themselves as employer-of-choice; promoting their brand and company culture was an uphill battle.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Job seekers wanted the flexibility to apply for jobs online without having to travel or reschedule their prior commitments.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rushed interactions between visitors and recruiters led to poor quality hiring decisions and lackluster attendee experience.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were no reporting tools to monitor event activity; simply tracking attendee footfall was not a reliable measurement of success.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Solution<\/span><\/h2>\n            <section class=\"meet-rep event-gallery\">\r\n                    <div class=\"row\">\r\n                        <div class=\"col-12\">\r\n                                <h3>Event Gallery<\/h3>\r\n                                <div class=\"speaker-list\">\r\n                                    <ul class=\"clearfix team-item\">\r\n                                                                                    <li class=\"team-image\">\r\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Majid-1.jpg\" class=\"open\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Majid-1.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/majid-2\" title=\"\">\r\n                                            <\/li>\r\n                                                                                    <li class=\"team-image\">\r\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Filter-Resumes-1.jpg\" class=\"open\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Filter-Resumes-1.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/filter-resumes-2\" title=\"\">\r\n                                            <\/li>\r\n                                                                                    <li class=\"team-image\">\r\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Register-1.jpg\" class=\"open\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Register-1.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/register-5\" title=\"\">\r\n                                            <\/li>\r\n                                                                                    <li class=\"team-image\">\r\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Video-Vault-1.jpg\" class=\"open\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Video-Vault-1.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/video-vault-18\" title=\"\">\r\n                                            <\/li>\r\n                                                                                    <li class=\"team-image\">\r\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Event-Hall-1.jpg\" class=\"open\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Event-Hall-1.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/event-hall-4\" title=\"\">\r\n                                            <\/li>\r\n                                                                            <\/ul>\r\n                                <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\r\n            \r\n                    <\/div> \r\n            <\/section>\r\n           \n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To help DIAC host an impactful Career Fair that utilized automation to support seamless recruitment, and unite students, graduates, and influential recruiters, the vFairs team put together a custom <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/solutions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">virtual career fair solution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that was truly one-of-its-kind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With an onsite Career Fair scheduled for the 13th and 14th of May 2018, the event continued being hosted online for an additional 3 days to maximize exposure, job seeker attendance, and employer branding outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Audience &amp; Exposure<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using the vFairs platform as a digital extension of the Career Fair, the exhibitors achieved access to a global talent pool with no geographical limitations. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/solutions\/virtual-career-fair\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">virtual Career Fair<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mimicked the physical event in a 3D setting allowing attendees to participate at any time from anywhere without the need for travel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, with the event being hosted round-the-clock, no time zone differences or scheduling conflicts hindered job seekers\u2019 ability to submit their resumes online for vacancies of interest- the result being employers building exceptional talent databases without constraints.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With pre-announced chat slots, guests could use audio, video, or textual chat functions to communicate with recruiters and have meaningful exchanges without having to wait in long queues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, the online event allowed employers to promote their brand with view-on-demand multimedia content and custom-designed virtual booths to ensure a fully immersive, informative, and exciting environment that met audience engagement objectives. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Powerful Applicant Tracking<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a prerequisite, all visitors were required to register through <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talentera.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talentera\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> custom recruitment platform to gain access to a dynamic job board with complete vacancy and employer listings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Job seekers were able to filter through job postings to find relevant matches for their skill sets and consequently submit their resumes to execute a focused job search strategy.\u00a0 Meanwhile, exhibitors could use the searchable platform to shortlist candidates according to their requirements and conduct targeted-follow ups even after the Career Fair had ended.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This eliminated any chances of lost prospects and empowered them to search for talent that best met their selection criteria with utmost precision.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instant Resume Capture &amp; Sorting<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To further enrich the onsite event, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scanshake.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ScanShake\u2019s <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mobile app was used to facilitate on-the-spot resume capturing of job seeker profiles. Instead of dealing with piles of paper-based resumes, recruiters captured profiles digitally with a quick scan of a QR code.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were able to capture profiles individually through the app which helped each exhibiting team to build a consolidated database of CVs without duplication with brilliant efficiency. Capturing CVs was just the starting point.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recruiters were able to go one step beyond by adding tags, writing notes, and shortlisting candidates through the app with a few taps; a welcomed relief that enabled them to annotate and organize candidate profiles on the fly, and record context behind each conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Detailed Reporting &amp; Analytics<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The virtual event platform measured event activity to gather real-time insights reflecting key performance indicators including total registrations, unique booth visits, job applications received, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This helped the host identify exhibitors that attracted most traffic, in addition to being able to track the vacancies most popular amongst visitors to obtain an overall understanding of the job market landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Results<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hitting an absolute home run, the DIAC Career Fair attracted 60+ employers, 25+ universities, and thousands of quality candidates ready to kick start their careers with the best names in the business. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Challenges With a goal to connect 80+ employers and universities with over 10,000 graduate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":30856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","industry-health","industry-wellness-fitness","region-canada"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vfairs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}