CareerJournal.com, The Wall Street Journalís executive career site, today announced that it is holding a special Executive Diversity Career Opportunities Fair on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 1900 Diagonal Rd. in Alexandria, Va. (across the street from the King Street Metro Station in suburban Washington, D.C.).
The fair, which is designed to help companies meet their executive, managerial and professional diversity-hiring goals, will focus solely on executive women and diversity candidates. This free event also will feature interviews with top companies seeking senior-level talent, free seminars and free resume critiques.
Top employers in a range of industries will attend. Companies that recruited at the CareerJournal.com Spring Executive Diversity Fair in Chicago included: Accenture; American Express Financial Advisers; Amerisure Insurance; AON; Blue Cross Blue Shield; Cargill; Caterpillar; Cisco Systems; Comerica; Compass Group; Deloitte & Touche; Dow Jones & Company; Ernst & Young; Fidelity Investments; GE Consumer Finance; Goldman Sachs; HealthNet; Hewitt Associates; Intel; JPMorganChase; Kohlís Department Stores; KPMG; LaSalle Bank; Medtronic; Merck; Morgan Stanley; NAVTEQ; the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA); Progressive Insurance; Prudential Financial; The Robert Toigo Foundation; RR Donnelly; Russell Investment Group; SC Johnson; Simon Property Group; Walton Construction; Wellpoint; Zurich American Insurance; and others.
Preregistration for the fair is not required. All attendees, who must bring copies of their resume, can register on site the day of the event. Free seminars throughout the day will cover such topics as interviewing, networking and negotiating more effectively. The fair also is sponsored by CollegeJournal.com, The Wall Street Journalís site for executive-track M.B.A. students and recent graduates, and Lucas Group, an Atlanta-based national executive-search firm.
ìDemand for senior-level diversity candidates is very strong across many industriesóranging from marketing and sales to law and general management,î said Tony Lee, publisher, CareerJournal.com. ìMany employers are continuing their efforts to adjust their senior-management ranks to reflect changing work force demographics.î
For more information on the Executive Diversity Career Fair, visit http://www.careerjournal.com/diversity/. For companies interested in recruiting at the fair, please contact Alex Baxter at alex.baxter@dowjones.com or 212-597-5989.
CareerJournal.com to host executive diversity job fair in Washington D.C. on November 15th
From 11am to 4pm
