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In this guide you'll find
- Top Online Career Fair Vendors
- Use Cases of virtual career fair platforms
- Pitfalls to avoid when using a virtual career fair platform
- Pricing Models of Virtual Career Fair Platforms
- Features of Virtual Career Fair Platforms
- Questions to ask on Demos
- Implementing a Virtual Career Fair Solution
- Virtual Career Fair FAQs
- Best Practices
COVID-19 has changed the way companies hire, perhaps permanently. Many companies have converted their in-person recruitment efforts to virtual events, including career fairs. Take a look at the following stats:
- Under normal circumstances, virtual career fairs have an average participation rate of 50%, but this figure has increased to as high as 90% since COVID-19.
- 45% of employers are using virtual hiring events more since the onset of the pandemic.
- Due to the pandemic, experts predict that 80% of recruiting will remain virtual for the foreseeable future.
Because of such shift, virtual career fair platforms have become indispensable to talent acquisition teams. Not only are these platforms a great way for companies to continue hiring during COVID-19, but they also expedite the hiring process while keeping recruitment costs low.
In this guide, we’ll dive into the best online career fair platforms, along with best practices for running a virtual career fair, pitfalls, and much more.
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We track thousands of HRTech solutions, these are the best online recruiting event platforms per our research and expert council as of 2022.
Why we love it
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Brazen is an easy-to-use virtual career fairs platform. Fortune 500 companies & top universities rely on Brazen to offer a great candidate experience with events that include live presentations, 1:1 video, audio or text chats, and much more.
- Their customer support is great, especially the chat support. When it comes to creating online events, their team would give you a step-by-step walkthrough of the entire process. Every month, their team arranges a monthly call between their customers and their appointed account representative to make sure everything is working fine. Their response time for customer queries is also fairly quick and you will usually hear back from them within the same day.
- Brazen makes networking easier. There are multiple networking booths for events where attendees can talk to employers via text, voice, or chat. Attendees can also easily switch between different booths.
- Before, after, and during each event, you’re provided with detailed analytics and data about signups, candidates, attendance, and other such metrics.
- Their team comes up with updates on a frequent basis and not only asks for client feedback but also takes end-user feedback into mind when rolling out new features.
- Their customer support is great, especially the chat support. When it comes to creating online events, their team would give you a step-by-step walkthrough of the entire process. Every month, their team arranges a monthly call between their customers and their appointed account representative to make sure everything is working fine. Their response time for customer queries is also fairly quick and you will usually hear back from them within the same day.
- Brazen makes networking easier. There are multiple networking booths for events where attendees can talk to employers via text, voice, or chat. Attendees can also easily switch between different booths.
- Before, after, and during each event, you’re provided with detailed analytics and data about signups, candidates, attendance, and other such metrics.
- Their team comes up with updates on a frequent basis and not only asks for client feedback but also takes end-user feedback into mind when rolling out new features.
- Customizations are limited. For instance, emails for the events are system automated and that can limit you from displaying your voice and brand.
- Compared to other popular video conferencing tools, Brazen’s built-in audio and video tool is not as stable and there can be occasional bugs.
- Initial setup can be a little confusing and it takes some trial and error to figure out a structure that helps you make the most out of your virtual events.
- The pricing of the platform isn’t transparent and self-signup free trials aren’t available at this time.
- Customizations are limited. For instance, emails for the events are system automated and that can limit you from displaying your voice and brand.
- Compared to other popular video conferencing tools, Brazen’s built-in audio and video tool is not as stable and there can be occasional bugs.
- Initial setup can be a little confusing and it takes some trial and error to figure out a structure that helps you make the most out of your virtual events.
- The pricing of the platform isn’t transparent and self-signup free trials aren’t available at this time.
Brazen
Review:
Brazen has been a leader in the virtual career fair world for nearly a decade. In as little as 15 minutes, you can create an event and start marketing to job seekers.
Brazen’s platform has many thoughtful features that you’d expect to make it easy for job seekers to find the right “booth” within a career fair and engage with recruiters via text or video. On the employer side, there are many features to help recruiting teams efficiently engage with and vet job seekers including pre-written responses to common questions, and the ability to chat with multiple candidates at once.
Brazen
Customers:
Brazen serves universities, companies, associations, workforce development organizations, and more. Notable customers include Spectrum, CVS Health, Temple University, KPMG, Lincoln Financial Group, and Houston Methodist.
Brazen serves universities, companies, associations, workforce development organizations, and more. Notable customers include Spectrum, CVS Health, Temple University, KPMG, Lincoln Financial Group, and Houston Methodist.
Brazen
Stats:
- Founded in 2007
- iRelaunch increased their event registration rate by 250% after implementing Brazen.
- Founded in 2007
- iRelaunch increased their event registration rate by 250% after implementing Brazen.
Brazen
Pricing:
Pricing is not disclosed upfront. You have to request a price quote by filling out a form online with details about your company.
Pricing is not disclosed upfront. You have to request a price quote by filling out a form online with details about your company.
Best For
Brazen is best suited for large organizations, universities, and companies with frequent and high-volume hiring needs.
Why we love it
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VidCruiter is very efficient and user-friendly. Not only do you get a dedicated account manager and unlimited training, but you also get access to some compelling features such as pre-recorded video interviews, automated scheduling, and interview rating guides.
- VidCruiter’s customers can choose the modules they want and purchase them individually, or purchase the entire recruiting suite, inclusive of all modules, i.e. video interviewing, applicant tracking, skill assessments, scheduling, and more.
- VidCruiter’s pre-recorded interview feature saves hiring managers a lot of time and eliminates scheduling conflicts. It also offers candidates the flexibility to record their answers at their convenience.
- VidCruiter supports mobile recruiting for on-the-go access. Both candidates and recruiters can view pre-recorded video interviews or join live video interviews/conferences from their iOS and Android mobile devices.
- VidCruiter’s account managers are quite hands-on. Besides helping you get started with the platform, they’ll also help you perform other processes, such as setting up the tracking and conversion metrics of your targeted ad campaigns so you can measure their success.
- VidCruiter is a multilingual recruiting solution. Besides English, it’s available in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, and Korean, both for recruiters and candidates.
- Several users have reported a steep learning curve and that the UI takes some time to get used to.
- A few users reported occasional video lag issues that aren’t internet connectivity-related.
- VidCruiter’s skills assessment module is great as an add-on, but isn’t built out enough compared to point solutions in that space. For example, it doesn’t really support advanced technical skills testing.
- VidCruiter doesn’t have a lot of pre-built integration options with HRIS/Payroll systems. That said, VidCruiter’s team is working on expanding their partner network and might create integrations upon customer requests.
VidCruiter
Review:
VidCruiter has been a leader in the talent acquisition technology space for quite some time. They now offer a virtual career fair platform for companies that want to transcend candidates' busy schedules and geographic constraints.
Their online career fair platform is a great way for companies to scalably attract and vet many candidates at once while still offering a great experience for potential employees.
Talent acquisition teams can use their platform to build landing pages to promote the event and then schedule interested applicants with recruiters, or asynchronous video interviews. There are also customization options such as the ability to provide interviewers standardized hiring rubrics which cuts down on operational complexity and bias in the hiring process.
VidCruiter
Customers:
Lowes, Samsung, Lionsgate
VidCruiter is used by over 40,000 recruiters, including ones from Lowe’s, Lionsgate, Samsung, Bears, US Foods, and United Nations.
VidCruiter
Stats:
- VidCruiter is trusted by 75,000+ Recruiters
- Had helped companies hire 7,000+ employees in two weeks
- Scalable for organizations of any size
- 24/7 Support
- FGH Security, a UK-based security services company, managed to reduce their time-to-hire from 10 days to 48 hours using VidCruiter.
- BioScript Solutions, a Canadian provider of specialty medications and health care support, used VidCruiter and accelerated their time-to-hire by 33%.
- Achievement First, a US-based charter school network, was able to reduce their average interview scheduling time by 35% with VidCuiter.
VidCruiter
Pricing:
The pricing of VidCruiter’s solutions is not disclosed on their website and is calculated based on your number of hires. You can get in touch with VidCruiter’s Sales team for a custom price quote.
Best For
Why we love it
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vFairs allows you to host career fairs virtually in a 3d environment. Within this environment, you can promote your employer brand, communicate with candidates, and increase engagement through several gamification features.
- vFairs allows you to host large-scale events virtually in 3d. You can customize lots of aspects, from your event venue, booths, and marketing collateral, down to animated avatars that represent your team.
- You get branded event mobile app that you can use for attendee check-in, webinar attending, networking, and more
- The team at vFairs is quite hands-on from the moment you sign up until after your event ends. They’ll assist you with onboarding, provide you with product training and guide you in designing and launching your events.
- vFairs allows you to host large-scale events virtually in 3d. You can customize lots of aspects, from your event venue, booths, and marketing collateral, down to animated avatars that represent your team.
- You get branded event mobile app that you can use for attendee check-in, webinar attending, networking, and more
- The team at vFairs is quite hands-on from the moment you sign up until after your event ends. They’ll assist you with onboarding, provide you with product training and guide you in designing and launching your events.
- vFairs pricing isn’t publicly disclosed, and you’d have to schedule a demo to find out much it costs for your event size and needs. Free trials are also not available at this time.
- As with many feature-rich products, it takes quite some time to get the hang of using vFairs, but the good news is that vFairs assigns customers dedicated customer success managers that are there to help.
- vFairs doesn't request that attendees confirm their email addresses after they register, which can create issues with attendees using email addresses that aren’t theirs.
- vFairs pricing isn’t publicly disclosed, and you’d have to schedule a demo to find out much it costs for your event size and needs. Free trials are also not available at this time.
- As with many feature-rich products, it takes quite some time to get the hang of using vFairs, but the good news is that vFairs assigns customers dedicated customer success managers that are there to help.
- vFairs doesn't request that attendees confirm their email addresses after they register, which can create issues with attendees using email addresses that aren’t theirs.
vFairs
Review:
vFairs is a versatile events management platform through which you can host 3D virtual, in-person as well as hybrid events of different types, including career fairs. The platform enables you to showcase your employer brand through webinars and all sorts of digital content. You can also promote job openings with vFairs’ Job Board module, customize the job application form, review resumes as they come in, shortlist promising candidates and conduct live video interviews.
vFairs
Customers:
vFairs serves organizations across several industries, most commonly non-profits, education, and events services. A few of their most notable customers, past and present, include T-Mobile, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Cornell University, and Duke University.
vFairs serves organizations across several industries, most commonly non-profits, education, and events services. A few of their most notable customers, past and present, include T-Mobile, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Cornell University, and Duke University.
vFairs
Stats:
vFairs has connected over 58,000 exhibitors with 48 million+ visitors.
vFairs has connected over 58,000 exhibitors with 48 million+ visitors.
vFairs
Pricing:
vFairs has custom pricing that varies depending on each user's needs. We recommend you reach out to their sales team to get an exact quote for your events.
vFairs has custom pricing that varies depending on each user's needs. We recommend you reach out to their sales team to get an exact quote for your events.
Best For
Though vFairs serves companies of all sizes across different verticals, the bulk of their customers are small and medium-sized businesses based in the US or UK.
Why we love it
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Paradox is mobile-first and lets you create virtual events within minutes. Once you sign up for this software, you can sit back and relax as it would do the hard work of handling event registrations, sending reminders, and introducing job seekers to a live recruiter.
- Their implementation and customer service is very efficient and accessible. You will not only get a Customer Success Manager to help you with every step during your implementation phase but your issues will also likely be resolved within the same day. Unlike many vendors, you can contact their support team via phone and explain your issue in real-time.
- It’s very time-saving and cuts down on back-and-forth communication between job candidates and recruiters. As Derek B, Head of Recruitment at a large-sized enterprise puts it, “Olivia helped us shave our response time from 7 days to under 24 hours. This time saving ensured that the applicants we chose to interview were the best of the bunch.”
- Olivia, their AI chatbot is programmed to respond to candidates in a way that feels personal, as if a real person is responding. What’s even better is that despite complete automation, you can see all chats and manually override them if need be.
- Their implementation and customer service is very efficient and accessible. You will not only get a Customer Success Manager to help you with every step during your implementation phase but your issues will also likely be resolved within the same day. Unlike many vendors, you can contact their support team via phone and explain your issue in real-time.
- It’s very time-saving and cuts down on back-and-forth communication between job candidates and recruiters. As Derek B, Head of Recruitment at a large-sized enterprise puts it, “Olivia helped us shave our response time from 7 days to under 24 hours. This time saving ensured that the applicants we chose to interview were the best of the bunch.”
- Olivia, their AI chatbot is programmed to respond to candidates in a way that feels personal, as if a real person is responding. What’s even better is that despite complete automation, you can see all chats and manually override them if need be.
- Although you can get some data and feedback about your company and its processes, analytics is not very robust in Paradox. If you’re looking for advanced features that let you slice and dice your data in various ways, you’ll have to look for other applications.
- Their AI assistant is intelligent and has a human touch but at the end of the day, Olivia is still AI. At times when you want nuanced answers in conversations, you’ll have to manually operate the chat.
- Although you can get some data and feedback about your company and its processes, analytics is not very robust in Paradox. If you’re looking for advanced features that let you slice and dice your data in various ways, you’ll have to look for other applications.
- Their AI assistant is intelligent and has a human touch but at the end of the day, Olivia is still AI. At times when you want nuanced answers in conversations, you’ll have to manually operate the chat.
Paradox
Review:
Paradox has built a virtual recruiting platform that allows companies to quickly create, market, and run hiring events. Their chatbot, Olivia, will take registrations, remind attendees about the upcoming event, and help coordinate while the event is running. Olivia will also conduct pre-screens, and answer candidate questions while they wait to talk to a recruiter. Their platform is great for recruiting, internal mobility, or a replacement for on campus recruiting. Lastly, they have no limits on users or seats which can be a huge plus for organizations that want to run larger events.
Paradox
Customers:
Unilever, McDonald’s, Amazon, 3M, CVS Health, Nestlé, Lowe’s
Unilever, McDonald’s, Amazon, 3M, CVS Health, Nestlé, Lowe’s
Paradox
Stats:
- After using Paradox, fast-food chain Wendy’s started saving 4-6 hours per restaurant per day
- Their customer MultiCare experienced a 22% decrease in cost per hire after using Paradox
- Great Wolf Lodge, one of Paradox’s customers saw a 225% reduction in employee turnover
- Major fast-food join McDonalds saw a 60% reduction in time to hire after using Paradox
- 250+ customers
- After using Paradox, fast-food chain Wendy’s started saving 4-6 hours per restaurant per day
- Their customer MultiCare experienced a 22% decrease in cost per hire after using Paradox
- Great Wolf Lodge, one of Paradox’s customers saw a 225% reduction in employee turnover
- Major fast-food join McDonalds saw a 60% reduction in time to hire after using Paradox
- 250+ customers
Paradox
Pricing:
Pricing is not disclosed upfront. You will have to schedule a demo to get custom pricing based on your company size. After filling out a demo form on their website, their team will reach out to you within one business day to learn about your team’s challenges and schedule a custom-tailored demo.
Pricing is not disclosed upfront. You will have to schedule a demo to get custom pricing based on your company size. After filling out a demo form on their website, their team will reach out to you within one business day to learn about your team’s challenges and schedule a custom-tailored demo.
Best For
Paradox is ideal for large enterprises that deal with a high volume of job candidates on a frequent basis.
Why we love it
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GR8 People is powerful and affordable. It has a built-in talent CRM and integrates well with your organization's video communications app, automates registrations, lets candidates self-schedule, and also develops your initial email templates.
GR8 People
Review:
GR8 People has recently launched a virtual recruiting event solution that allows companies to continue marketing and managing hiring events virtually despite COVID-19. Their tools allow companies to spin up a branded landing page for each event, leverage templates for automated communications for registration and reminders, pre-screen and invite attendees to self-schedule a time to chat with recruiters during the event, collect attendee feedback and have access to event performance reports that can be exported to the organization’s ATS.
GR8 People
Customers:
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Talbots, Polaris
GR8 People
Stats:
- 98% customer retention
- Over 1 million users
- Customers have seen up to a 40% recruiting event hire conversion rate
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Why we love it
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Premier Virtual’s virtual recruitment platform is easy to use and quick to set up. You can use it to organize virtual and hybrid job fairs with customizable lobbies and booths. It also comes with job board integrations, an interview scheduler, and real-time event analytics.
- According to users, Premier Virtual's support team is extremely helpful and professional.
- Customers especially like the flexibility that the product provides. You can easily set up different booths and customize them to reflect your brand, chat 1:1 with attendees, and make changes in real-time during the event.
- Premier Virtual's analytics dashboard provides users with valuable real-time feedback on how their booth is performing, the number of attendees, interactions, resumes received, and more.
- The platform does not allow employers to filter attendees and job seekers by parameters like skills, current role, and location.
- According to a few users, the user interface can be confusing to navigate and could use some improvement.
Premier Virtual
Review:
Premier Virtual's job fair solution is easy to set up, and mimics the look and feel of a live in-person career fair. Once onboarded as a customer, you will be assigned a dedicated Client Success Manager to walk you through the virtual event setup. You can customize your registration landing page, lobby, and booth with your branding, add details about your organization and the job fair and ask registrants questions to qualify them.
On the day of the event, attendees can log in online, enter the lobby a.k.a the job fair, enter each organization's virtual booth, view job postings, and apply for open roles. Premier Virtual also allows you to track analytics like the number of attendees, booth visits, chats, and resumes submitted in real-time and via downloadable reports sent to you after the event.
Premier Virtual
Customers:
Virginia Career Works, Catalyst Career Group, U.S Army, MassHire, FAU, Comfort Systems, CareerSource FL, and Nashville Technology Council
Premier Virtual
Stats:
- 6000+ virtual hiring events have been hosted through Premier Virtual's platform
- 65,000+ employers have used the platform
- Over 700,000 job seekers have attended an event powered by Premier Virtual
Premier Virtual
Pricing:
Premier Virtual charges $2,500-$5,750 per event and around $15,500 for an annual license. Enterprise customers can request a custom quote. They also offer a free 30-day trial.
Best For:
Premier Virtual is best-suited for remote and hybrid businesses that frequently host virtual career fairs and online hiring events.
Why we love it
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Eightfold helps you cast a wider net with online events and virtual career fairs. With the help of its powerful AI, it’s also able to identify suitable candidates from its talent pool that you can later invite to your virtual events.
- Eightfold uses AI technology to analyze your job postings and find the best fitting candidates. It can also rank those candidates based on their skills, experience and potential.
- You can filter candidate searches by experience level or salary range so that you only see candidates that fit your hiring criteria.
- The platform encourages diversity hiring and enables you to eliminate hiring bias through anonymous screening, aka profile masking
- It improves overall employee experience by providing tailored training and development opportunities based on their skill sets and interests.
- It has a built-in CRM to store and manage HR data about potential candidates, current employees, and previous employees.
- There isn’t a way for hiring managers and recruiters to leave notes on candidates profiles within the system which is rather inconvenient.
- Eightfold has a mobile app that employees can access for skills development but doesn’t currently have one for hiring managers and recruiters to manage their pipeline and perform other actions relating to the hiring process.
- Several users reported that the tool does not search for candidates outside its database.
- The platform’s pricing isn’t transparent and there is no free trial at this time.
eightfold
Review:
Eightfold's Virtual Event Recruiting platform allows you to create online events that connect with a diverse pool of job-seekers. Built with artificial intelligence, the platform helps you invite candidates from an uploaded resume book or from your own Talent Network. Eightfold also helps match companies with candidates based on their skills, and encourages them to attend specific events or apply for a job. Recruiters can meet candidates as a group or 1:1, conduct assessments, and select candidates for follow-up.
eightfold
Customers:
Eightfold’s client list includes prominent enterprises like TATA Communications, LG, Vodafone, Bayer, Chevron, Morgan Stanley, and more.
eightfold
Stats:
- Eightfold has more than 100 clients spread across 25 countries.
- In 2022, Eightfold increased its revenue run rate to $45.2 million with 100 customers.
eightfold
Pricing:
Eightfold's pricing plans are not disclosed on its website. Contact their Sales team for a custom quote.
Best For:
Eightfold is best suited for large companies and enterprises hiring more than 100 candidates a year.
Why we love it
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Unlike its competitors, Live Recruit provides a virtual recruitment event platform and helps promote hiring events to prospective candidates. Their omnichannel marketing on all target audience hotspots enables increased engagement and attendance.
- The base price is lower (plans start at $349/month for unlimited events) than the vast majority of competitor platforms.
- Live Recruit isn't just a recruitment event solution, it offers omnichannel marketing via email marketing, paid social, search engine marketing, live calls, direct mail, etc. to promote your events.
- The Event Builder feature is very easy to use, as it allows non-tech users to build events in under 6 minutes by using page templates where you just need to fill data in.
- Unlike some other similar solutions, Live Recruit allows you to video chat with candidates on the platform without relying on third-party integrations.
- The base price is lower (plans start at $349/month for unlimited events) than the vast majority of competitor platforms.
- Live Recruit isn't just a recruitment event solution, it offers omnichannel marketing via email marketing, paid social, search engine marketing, live calls, direct mail, etc. to promote your events.
- The Event Builder feature is very easy to use, as it allows non-tech users to build events in under 6 minutes by using page templates where you just need to fill data in.
- Unlike some other similar solutions, Live Recruit allows you to video chat with candidates on the platform without relying on third-party integrations.
- The starter and professional plan do not offer ATS integrations. This means you'll have to use the manual approach to export data to your preferred ATS.
- Live Recruit offers 1 to 3 recruiter seats out-the-box. If you want more you have to pay for additional permissions per event. So for companies with several recruiters, the costs will add up.
- The solution doesn't offer a support knowledge base to further simplify user navigation. If you need help finding anything you'd have to contact support.
- The starter and professional plan do not offer ATS integrations. This means you'll have to use the manual approach to export data to your preferred ATS.
- Live Recruit offers 1 to 3 recruiter seats out-the-box. If you want more you have to pay for additional permissions per event. So for companies with several recruiters, the costs will add up.
- The solution doesn't offer a support knowledge base to further simplify user navigation. If you need help finding anything you'd have to contact support.
Live Recruit
Review:
Live Recruit is a virtual hiring event platform that provides an easy-to-use landing page builder. Their landing page template utilizes custom fields that you'd just need to fill out. Then, you can upload your custom branding image and start sourcing. With this tool, most organizations build their event registration pages in under 6 minutes.
The Live Recruit team also helps out by promoting your virtual hiring efforts through digital ads, live calls, email, etc. You can engage with candidates through chat, call, video, or text.
Once they’ve left some info, you can manage candidate profiles and take next steps like rating them, taking notes, and connecting candidates to hiring managers.
Live Recruit
Customers:
Live Recruit
Stats:
- A UNC Health virtual hiring event that engaged 11,800+ candidates via omnichannel promotion, with 73% of candidates interviewed and 91% of job offers accepted.
- Bayard Advertising's virtual hiring event saw 30,000 candidates engaged via omnichannel marketing, with 70% of interviewed candidates extended offers.
- Time to fill has been seen to decrease by 3 days.
- Customer data reveals 2.5 hrs saved in hiring time.
Live Recruit
Pricing:
Live Recruit offers 3 pricing plans with each differing in the available features and number of recruiter seats permitted:
- Starter: This plan costs $349 per month and includes 1 recruiter seat ($295 with an annual subscription).
- Professional: The Professional plan costs $899 per month and allows for 3 recruiter seats ($765 with an annual subscription).
- Enterprise: This plan uses custom pricing, offers 3 recruiter seats, and more features.
Best For:
Live Recruit is best for in-house recruiters, recruitment firms, and temporary staffing agencies based in the United States looking to recruit anywhere from 5 to 5000 candidates via virtual events.
Why we love it
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With an intuitive and customizable layout, Hopin virtually connects employers and job seekers. Candidates can attend panels, visit booths, engage with recruiters, and build networks.
Hopin
Review:
Hopin's virtual events software empowers organizations to run virtual career fairs that allow job seekers and companies to come together in a simple to use platform. Their offering allows organizations to create registration pages and market a career fair. The day of, there is no need to download software for attendees as they can seamlessly enter the fair, and then engage in group sessions, or 1:1 with recruiters. There are several different options on the company side including Q&As, a speed dating format, screen shares, or pre-recorded videos.
Hopin
Customers:
Adobe, Twitch, The Atlantic
Hopin
Stats:
- 45,000+ events hosted
- Used by over 30,000 organizations
- 99% of organizers say they'd use Hopin again
Hopin
Pricing:
Hopin has a $100/mo plan for smaller events, and annual plans with slightly more robust feature sets for larger organizations starting at $799/mo up to custom pricing.
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Why we love it
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Communique's solution is quite flexible; you can customize the environment for your virtual career fairs and make it look like the actual college campus. You can also customize several branding elements and have your event reflect your company’s corporate identity.
- When creating events, you'll have the option to choose from existing templates or design a fully custom virtual career fair environment with your brand, corporate colors, and people.
- You can maximize your candidate reach with Communique as it can be accessed from any location, on any modern browser or mobile device.
- The team at Communique is quite hands-on. They’ll assist you with product implementation, and guide you in designing and launching your first event.
- When creating events, you'll have the option to choose from existing templates or design a fully custom virtual career fair environment with your brand, corporate colors, and people.
- You can maximize your candidate reach with Communique as it can be accessed from any location, on any modern browser or mobile device.
- The team at Communique is quite hands-on. They’ll assist you with product implementation, and guide you in designing and launching your first event.
- Communique’s UI looks a little outdated and isn’t not the easiest to navigate, especially for new users.
- The platform doesn’t offer free trial and pricing isn’t publically shared. You’ll need to contact their Sales’ team for a quote.
- Third-party integrations are quite limited at this time, with very little options to connect HR software solutions.
- Communique’s UI looks a little outdated and isn’t not the easiest to navigate, especially for new users.
- The platform doesn’t offer free trial and pricing isn’t publically shared. You’ll need to contact their Sales’ team for a quote.
- Third-party integrations are quite limited at this time, with very little options to connect HR software solutions.
Communique
Review:
Communique’s virtual career fairs solution aims to closely emulate in-person recruiting events, translating exhibit halls, booths, presentations, and more into a flexible 3D environment that reflects your branding. For maximum reach, allows candidates to join events from any location, through any computer or mobile device. Furthermore, recruiters and candidates can communicate with one another over chat or video interviews, which can be scheduled and conducted using Communique’s built-in scheduling and video conferencing tools.
Communique
Customers:
Communique is used by companies all over the world. Some of the biggest names on their client list are Disney, GE, Mastercard, Sony, EY, and Salesforce.
Communique
Stats:
- In business for over 20 years
- Supports over 29 languages
- ISO 27001 certified for data security
Communique
Pricing:
The pricing of Communique’s solutions isn’t disclosed upfront. Contact their Sales team to get a quote.
Best For:
Communique can be used by companies of all sizes, but do note that the majority of their customers are growing companies and enterprises.
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Best Practices
If you’re going to setup virtual events as part of your recruiting process, we wanted to share some best practices we’ve learned while putting this guide together so that you can be successful:
- Leverage Career site: Make sure to use your career website to drive traffic to your virtual event’s sign up page. Obviously, a lot of job seekers with high intent are checking you out on your career page, do your best to drive this traffic to your next online event.
- Leverage Job Postings: Instead of having people apply to a role on your job postings, you can drive people to a virtual career fair sign up page. This allows you to sell the candidate on your organization, and quickly get a feel for whether you want to push them into the actual interview process.
- Talent Pools: Past applicants, silver medalists, talent community members and any other candidate database are great pools of talent you should be telling about your next career events.
- Social Proof: Social proof your signup pages with quotes from past job seekers about your events, what makes your company a great place to work, and any other third party validation of your organization (Glassdoor ratings, awards, funding, customer logos, etc).
- Set Expectations: Many job seekers have never been to a virtual career fair – let them know what to expect. Who will be there from your team, how long will they get to chat with them, how long will it take, text vs video chats, how to prepare, etc.
- Candidate Notes: Just like in a normal job fair, your recruiters will meet a ton of candidates. Make sure they are taking notes immediately after talking to a given candidate so that they know whether or not they want to move them forward.
Last Advice
If your company is still hiring during COVID-19, then you’re going to want to look at virtual career fairs as a way to get in front of and convert candidates.
However, we’d say that even after social distancing becomes less important, virtual career fairs are a great way to engage talent and move them down your hiring funnel.
So, it makes sense to explore this channel for companies, recruiting firms, and organizations that run their own career fairs. Good luck!
Best Virtual Career Fair Platforms
- VidCruiter:Virtual Career Software From a Video Interview LeaderATS with native video interviewing
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