CareerJournal.com today announced that its most recent Executive Diversity Career Fair, held in Alexandria, Va., on Nov. 15, attracted more than 1,000 candidates. It was co-sponsored by CareerJournal.com, The Wall Street Journalís site for executive-track M.B.A. students and recent graduates, Lucas Group, an international executive-search firm headquartered in Atlanta and CollegeJournal.com. CareerJournal.com created these fairs as a way to help diversity candidates and women, who have been underrepresented as companies seek to recruit senior-management talent. This recent event is one of a series of Executive Diversity Career Fairs being held across the U.S.
The fairs offer candidates the opportunity to interview with a range of top companies in a professional setting, as well as attend free career-management seminars and have their resumes critiqued. CareerJournal.com and Lucas Groupís Executive Diversity Career Fair is the only executive-level diversity career fair in the nation.
ìWe get great satisfaction from our ability to introduce highly qualified diversity candidates to employers who are eager to meet them,î said Tony Lee, publisher, CareerJournal.com. ìAs more companies realize that hiring a diverse executive team gives them a competitive advantage, they turn to CareerJournal.com as the best source for identifying and recruiting those candidates.î
ìWe are very pleased to co-host and actively participate in the fair with CareerJournal.com and the other co-sponsors,î said Art Lucas, president and CEO of Lucas Group. ìCompanies with a competitive edge and those that are seeking diversity talent can rely on Lucas Group to bring together diversified executive talent with top corporations and organizations around the country. The positive results that come from this event are a testament to the diversity needs in the marketplace. We hope to help these companies and candidates come together and form opportunities and prosperous relationships.î
The fair in Alexandria, Va., not only attracted 1,000 executive-level diversity candidates but also more than 30 companiesómany of which reported making multiple job offers at the fair. Other companies only participated in the online diversity special report on CareerJournal.com. Participating companies included, Abbott Laboratories; Alliant Energy; Dell; Ernst & Young; Hewlett-Packard; Honeywell; Intel; Intuit; Lockheed Martin; Oracle; Russell Investment Group; Sanofi-Aventis; Smith Barney; UBS; and Vanguard.
ìI have attended a few job fairs in the past few months, but none like this one,î said Gerald Cooke, a banking and finance executive in Washington, D.C. ìIt was well organized, structured and most of the companies seemed genuinely interested in seeking new talent. I want to commend them on a job well done.î
The next Executive Diversity Career Fair will be held April 19, 2006, in Chicago at the Embassy Suites Downtown.
CareerJournal.com and Lucas groups executive diversity career fair attracts more 1,000 candidates
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