Career Expo 2009 | Employers

Benefits

The Career Expo is an event that will bring job seekers and recruiters together. This is an opportunity for you to fill your full-time, part-time, co-op and internship employment needs with motivated, trained students and graduates from Lakeland Community College and many other Ohio colleges as well as job seekers from universities, and the surrounding community. The Career Expo is an ideal way for companies to:

• Showcase their organization and distribute literature
• Make early contact with spring graduates
• Build a database of resumes for current and future hiring needs

Employers should have open career-related technical, para-professional and professional positions (see our listing of some of the many degree programs offered at Lakeland).

The registration fee is $100 per organization. You will receive one table, two chairs, complimentary breakfast bar, lunch for up to two representatives and listing in the company directory and on the Career Expo website.

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Some of Our Degree Programs

Outstanding candidates are pursuing or completing professional, technical, and liberal arts associate degree programs from the areas of concentration below:

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Ensure Your Recruiting Success

• Creative exhibits get results! Bring your own tablecloths and tabletop displays that showcase your company.
• Clearly indicate the types of jobs you recruit for at your table.
• Know your audience. Look at our list of degree programs so that you know what types of Lakeland Community College students to expect.
• Staff your Career Expo table with recent graduates or alumni from Lakeland who can relate to Lakeland Community College students.
• Take turns leaving your table for breaks; you might miss connecting with that perfect candidate if your table is unstaffed.
• Have your recruiting team represent your organization's diversity. A diverse looking team reflects support of diversity within your company.
• Do not solicit candidates to buy products and/or services.
• Integrate high tech and high touch. Use technology to showcase your products, services, and organization.
• Be sure to let the Lakeland Career Services staff know what your technology or electrical needs are prior to the Expo.
• Give items away at your table that will draw people to you. Be sure to have an adequate supply!
• Have three or four screening questions ready to ask potential recruits as you collect their resumes at the Career Expo.

Adapted from material from The Employer's Guide to College Recruiting and Hiring, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), 2006.

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How We Are Marketing the Career Expo

• News releases in local publications and public service radio announcements.
• Large ads on Laketran busses.
• Participating employers listed on Lakeland Career Services' website which receives over 10,000 hits per month!
• Display ads in local and college newspapers.
• Announcements on Lakeland's cable TV station and electronic street sign.
• 9,000 flyers to Lakeland students, student organizations and other area colleges.
• 500 posters and banners distributed across campus and the community.
• Promotional classroom presentations.
• Over 8,000 e-mails to students, faculty, staff and current users of Lakeland's online job board.
• 6,000 postcards sent to past and current Lakeland graduates.
• Announcements in Lakeland Alumni Association's newsletter to over 16,000 alumni.

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