Avoid The Hassle Of In Person Career Fairs With Astound's Virtual Career Fair Platform

Virtual career fair platform and event management. We market your event to high-impact job seekers.

Virtual Job Fairs

Engage talent from the comfort and safety of your home or office

Webinars

Present your opportunities to your audience over video and presentations.

Video Interviews

Meet one to one with candidates after your career fair.

What is a virtual job fair?

Virtual job fairs (career fairs) are very similar to traditional job fairs except for the handshake, travel, time, and cost it may require to attend an in-person recruiting event. In a virtual career fair, recruiters and jobseekers meet and interact in the company’s virtual booth or stand, and from the convenience of the home or office.

Save Time

Because you attend a virtual job fair online, you save time typically required to travel to the venue of an in-person job fair, booth setup and breakdown time.

Reduce Cost

With zero travel costs, marketing materials, and shipping costs, the Astound Virtual Career Fairs result in considerable cost savings.

Stand Out

Virtual career fairs are a great way to stand out from the crowd and to increase your talent pool. Because of the ease of access, virtual allows you...

ENGAGE ANY AUDIENCE WITH AN INTUITIVE VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE

With virtually no learning curve required, attendees derive value from the word “Go”. The immersive graphical environment enables them to easily browse valuable content, use chat tools to network with exhibitors and attend webinars for learning.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR A SUCCESSFUL VIRTUAL EVENT

Virtual Career Fairs is a one-stop-shop for running an online event that delivers big on results. From chat tools to webinars to A+ support, we've got you covered.

ENGAGE AUDIENCES AT SCALE

Enable global networking with Group & 1:1 text/audio/video chat

PRESENT TO THE WORLD

Enable speakers to host talks, keynotes & breakout sessions with webinars.

MEASURE YOUR IMPACT

Get insightful reports to understand how effective your online event was.

24/7 GLOBAL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

Get world-class customer support for any timezone around the clock.

MOBILE-COMPLIANT & ACCESSIBLE

Join accessibility-enabled events from any device and any location.

MULTI-LINGUAL SUPPORT

Host your virtual event in English, Arabic, Chinese & many other languages.

Our Clients Loves Us. Here's Why

A Little Glimpse of Our Work

Veteran Recruitment Center

The Veteran Recruitment Center is an always available virtual career fair environment that has connected more than 3-million veterans with thousands of recruiters from leading companies. The VRC is the only perpetual virtual career fair that allows multiple companies to attend an event and allow for each individual company to host virtual career fairs for just their organization.

  • More than 300 events each year
  • Over 340,000 attendees in 2019
  • More than 212,000 veterans hired by the companies who attend
  • More than 400 of the Fortune 1,000 have participated

Progressive Insurance Recruitment Center

Progressive came to us looking for a different way to recruit on campus. We designed the Progressive Recruitment Center to allow them to recruit on multiple campuses in just a few hours and students loved it because they are used to communicating online, and the money they saved on dry cleaning didn’t hurt either.

  • Greatly reduced their time to hire
  • Expanded the colleges they typically recruit from
  • Increased their college talent network by 22%
  • Resulted in a 17% reduction in travel expenses

Verizon Recruitment Center

The Verizon Recruitment Center was utilized by multiple divisions within the enterprise to engage talent. Verizon Wireless used the RC to recruit for new store openings, and campus recruitment. Verizon corporate used it to recruit for I.T positions and sales roles, and for internal recruitment for career mobility.

  • More than 37,000 job seekers attended
  • Hundreds of hires in one-year
  • Reduced the time to hire
  • Greatly increased their brand to potential candidates

Boston Scientific Recruitment Center

Boston Scientific came to Astound with a need to increase the flow of candidates that applied for their open positions. We decided on a Recruitment Center to allow them to expand their reach and to help them stand out from the competition.

  • More than 53,000 job seekers attended their career fairs
  • Utilized for campus, diversity, and veteran recruitment
  • Resulted in a significant decrease in time to hire
  • The RC was used in multiple countries to recruit and engage talent

Mission Media Virtual Career Fair

NCTA approached Astound to host a virtual career fair for its members who wanted to recruit veterans for positions within their company. We developed a multi-company virtual career fair to bring both sides together.

  • More than 1,200 veterans attended
  • More than 230 job offers were extended
  • 32 companies participated
  • 37 states were represented

Detroit Homecoming Virtual Career Fair

CRAIN approached Astound about the possibility of standing up a virtual career fair to attract I.T workers who had moved away from the Detroit region in the hopes of getting them to come back to see how Detroit has bounced back and become a great place for their skills and talent.

  • Supported by leading businesses and colleges in Detroit
  • More than 900 job seekers attended
  • More than 70 job offers extended
  • Event was launched in less than 3-weeks

Microsoft Software & Systems Academy (MSSA)

Microsoft Software & Systems Academy (MSSA) provides transitioning service members and veterans, including those with clearance, with critical career skills required for today’s growing technology industry. MSSA came to Astound to help them stand up a virtual career fair platform that could be used to connect graduating students from each cohort and recruiters from the companies who support the program.

  • More than 40 companies have participated
  • Over 600 graduates have attended
  • Greatly reduced the time to connect graduates with employers
  • Helped to expand the number of companies who supported the MSSA program

Astound Advantage

When selecting a vendor for your virtual career fair, what matter most to you?

✔ Astound was launched in 2008 and virtual job fairs is all we do. Since 2009, we have conducted more than 6,000 recruiting events for our partners. You benefit from our knowledge and experience, and we treat your event as if it was our own.

✔ We manage all aspects of your event from the design of your branded microsite, design of your event, training of your staff, and reporting. You can focus on promoting your company to the job seekers that attend your event.

✔ What separates Astound from the other companies who can deliver a platform for a virtual job fair is our ability to drive attendees to your event. We host many of our own events each year and have a network of more than 5-million job seekers from the various events we host such as; Veterans, Engineers, College Students, Nurses, Workers with disabilities, and much more. You may want to consider joining one of our upcoming events.

✔ We appreciate that cost is a big concern for most companies we work with, and if cost is your deciding factor, Astound is likely not the best partner for your event or company. While we are not the cheapest service, we stand behind the value and the service that is delivered with every event we do. That is why more than 400, Fortune 500 companies have worked with us to recruit high-impact talent.

HUNDREDS OF FORTUNE 500 Companies TRUST US FOR THEIR VIRTUAL EVENTS