iCongo Live Virtual Online Job Fair System Connects Employers and Candidates In Real Time

iCongo Live, the leading provider of virtual online events, job fairs and trade shows, today announced strong results from three well-attended online job fairs recently held with vertical industry clients. The clients include Bayt.com, the largest job board in the Middle East, TOP-Consultant, a leading vertical job board for consulting careers in London (UK) and The Undutchables, a well established recruiting agency in the Netherlands.

During these events, iCongo Liveís clients achieved the following concrete results:

ï high levels of participation by job candidates;
ï high rates of job postings and profiles;
ï high rates of applications submitted by job candidates;
ï high average time spent by candidates in various online booths; and,
ï high brand exposure of employers either through Webinars, online booths or through signage throughout the virtual event exhibition halls.

We are very proud of the results realized by our job fair clients,î said Yves Daoust, executive vice-president at iCongo Live. îiCongo Liveís technology delivers real-time interaction between recruiters and job seekers, increases a recruiter's productivity and extends geographical reachóall without the recruiter leaving the office.î

iCongo Liveís virtual job fair platform enables employers to:

ï create, post and update positions within booths or job centers;
ï qualifies and ranks applicants on pre-defined employer criteria;
ï receives and tracks in real-time resumes and applicants; and,
ï interviews candidates using online chat with video.

We are committed to continually facilitating the process for employers to actively find, interact with, and recruit relevant job seekers; and for job seekers to easily find the newest and most exciting jobs in the Middle East from some of the best employers in the region and further afield, said Bayt.com CEO Rabea Ataya.

Speaking on the outcome of one of the job fair exhibitions, Rick Helliwell, vice president – recruitment, Emirates Group said: We were delighted with the amount of responses we received from the Virtual Career Fair. During the 5 days of the career fair, we had more than 26,000 visits to our booth and over 9,000 unique career seekers were exposed to our brand and job opportunities.î

ìFor TOP-Consultant, this was a great experience. More than 900 pre-screened candidates visited the 42 exhibitor stands at our first ever Top-Consultant virtual careers fair,î said Tony Restell, director & co-founder at TOP Consultant. ìAt the end of what proved to be a very busy and exciting day, we could see that each stand had been visited by an average of 427 visitors and that our clients were having to deal with what one was calling an ìavalanche of CVs.î 98% of our employers said they were pleased with their first online job fairî.

ìFor the Undutchables, the success of our online job fair was a great surprise to us. The shrinking talent pool and struggling economy is putting a host of new pressures on organizations in the Netherlands to find good talented people, says Yvonne Van Hest, president. Virtual job fairs are helping HR professionals overcome recruiting challenges by enabling them to more cost effectively engage qualified job candidates without leaving their desks.