2023 101 JOB FAIR & WORKSHOP

This year our Workshop “Prepare to impress” was held the day before the Job Fair on Wednesday, February 15th at Montgomery Bank — Webster Groves. Job seekers had the opportunity to hear from Chelsea Musgrave, SVP Human Resources of MBC; and Gabriela E. Romero, Department Head — English, Languages of Lindenwood, recommendations on how to prepare for a job fair, answer interview questions, and create your resume.

We offered headshots available by Carol Lara Photography for those who didn’t have a professional photo for their LinkedIn profile. Also, Chelsea and Gabriela helped attendees review their resumes.

The next day, Thursday, February 16th, we hosted our annual Job Fair from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 36. As every year, this event connected Metro organizations with job seekers from diverse backgrounds, engaging diverse talent in our thriving St. Louis workforce community.

This Job Fair was open to EVERYONE of any background looking for any type of employment (full/part time, freelance, internships, etc.).

For the second year in a row, we provided free childcare to make sure everyone could have access to this event. In addition, for the first time we provided:

Ŋ An interpreter on site, in case someone didn’t feel very confident with their English.

Ŋ Nametags for job seekers with a QR code for companies to access their LinkedIn profile.

2023 Job Fair

Ŋ Goodie bags sponsored by Azteca Insurance with some giveaways from the sponsors.

Title Sponsor

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

This event garnered over 10K impressions of publicity in the STL market, including a LIVE interview on KMOV4, a mention on Fox2 News, two billboards placed throughout the St. Louis City, an email blast sent by the St. Louis Post Dispatch to a list of 5K job seekers, and numerous social media posts.

To make this event more attractive to attendees, we raffled 4 Amazon gift cards. Only registered people could participate. Congratulations to Guille, Himmer, Claudia, and Annabel for being the winners of the gift cards.

This year 58 companies participated, 98 active job seekers attended, and 93 resumes were received. The most popular industries of interest we had were:

Ŋ Healthcare

Ŋ Human resources

Ŋ Customer services

Ŋ Marketing

Ŋ Technology

Ŋ Financial services

Ŋ Legal

Ŋ Translation services

58 98 93 COMPANIES PARTICIPATED JOB SEEKERS RESUMES