26. June 2009 | Show Originial
The “Putting America Back to Work” job fair series, with over 50 events scheduled to be held across the country, returns to Pittsburgh on August 4th at Mellon Arena (home of the Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins) from 10AM to 3PM.The March event, which was also held at Mellon Arena, featured 45 companies and schools and was attended by approximately 1,500 job seekers. One aspect of this series across the country is the post event tracking of how many job offers are made to the job seekers who attended each event. The goal was 10,000 jobs by 2010. We expect an announcement soon on the status, nationwide, on how close we are getting to the goal now that we are half way through 2009. The Pittsburgh event in March has resulted so far in over 150 job offers made giving those in attendance a better than 1 in 10 chance of landing a job.
The upcoming August event is expected to be somewhat smaller in size due to the seasonal aspect of an early August job market. About 25 to 30 companies are expected to attend.
The doors will open to the public at 10:00AM with free admission and no pre-registration required. As we get closer to the event date a list will be made public of what companies and schools will be on hand to speak with job seekers.
This event, the 2009 Pittsburgh Diversity Employment and Career Education Expo, is produced by the Pittsburgh office of EmploymentGuide.com, The Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, AARP Foundation WorkSearch and Allegheny Department of Veteran’s Affairs. Representatives from each of those organizations will be on hand to speak with job seekers about programs offered to help with job searches in this difficult economy.
