Executive Diversity Career Fair to be held in Chicago On April 19

NEW YORK - CareerJournal.com, The Wall Street Journalís executive career site and Lucas Group today announced that they are holding a special Executive Diversity Career Fair sponsored by UBS on Wednesday, April 19 at the Embassy Suites Hotel Downtown in Chicago.

The Executive Diversity Career Fair is designed to assist companies in meeting their executive, managerial and professional diversity-hiring goals. This free event also will feature seminars on strategic career management and other topics, a careers Q&A and free resume critiques. The educational components of the fair are being offered by ResumeEdge; Deb Koen, President of Career Development Services; Susan Ward, President & CEO of Soul & Work Institute; and UBS - Wealth Management Careers.

ìDemand for senior-level diversity candidates is very strong across many industriesóranging from marketing and sales to law and general management,î said Gail Griffin, general manager, CareerJournal.com. ìMany employers are continuing their efforts to adjust their senior-management ranks to reflect changing work force demographics.î

Potential employers from a broad range of industries are expected to attend. including: Accenture, Alzheimer’s Association, AMCORE Bank, American Family Insurance, AON, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Boeing, Case New Holland, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, ConAgra Foods, Inc., Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson Company, Crowe Chizek and Company LLC, Duke Realty Corporation, Eli Lilly, Ernst & Young, First Banks, Fitch Ratings, General Electric, Harris Bank, International Truck and Engine Corporation, Iron Mountain, LaSalle Bank Corporation, Mead Johnson Nutritionals, Medtronic USA Inc., Nationwide Insurance, NAVTEQ, Northern Trust, Nuveen Investments, Inc., Owens Corning, Plante & Moran, PLLC, Publicis Healthcare Communications Group, Russell Investment Group, Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., Smith Barney, State Farm, Synch Solutions, The Dow Chemical Company, The National Security Agency, UBS, Vanguard, WellPoint, Inc., WMS Gaming Inc., Wyeth, and Zurich North America.

Pre-registration for the fair is not required. All attendees, who must bring copies of their resume, can register on site the day of the event.

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.