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DIA Job Fair on Monday, February 14, 2011.
Denver Workforce Center and DIA Employer Services are hosting a Job Fair at Denver International Airport on Monday February 14th, 2011.
YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER AND BRING YOUR COMPLETED 2-PAGE REGISTRATION FORM IN ORDER TO ATTEND!
Registration forms or pens will not be available at the job fair – do not leave home without them.
Pre-registration instructions and more details about the job fair and the jobs will be available on www.MileHigh.com.
IMPORTANT:
- All applicants MUST pass a 10-year background check to be eligible for employment at the airport. Some businesses have more strict requirements.
- Parking will NOT be validated. Be prepared to cover your own transportation and/or parking costs. (DIA parking map: http://flydenver.com/parking, RTD/bus information: http://www.rtd-denver.com/)
- Business attire is requested (you will not be allowed entry if dressed inappropriately for jobseeking).
- Due to limited space, only pre-registered jobseekers will be allowed entry into the job fair room (no children, relatives, friends …)
A sign language interpreter or other accommodation can be made available upon request. Please contact Lynn Sargent at 303-342-2580 or lynn.sargent@denvergov.org at least one week prior to the event if accommodation is required.
Canopy Airport Parking Job Fair
From the Denver Post:
A job fair will be held Oct. 12 to find employees for a “green” parking option set to open this year near Denver International Airport.
Canopy Airport Parking plans more than 90 jobs, including bus drivers, valet parkers, cashiers, dispatchers, maintenance workers and supervisors for the 4,200-space facility at Tower Road and Peña Boulevard.
The job fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 7001 Yampa St., near DIA.
Job Fair 9/24/10 for Sales Associates at DIA
From our friends at Denver’s Office of Economic Development:
Greetings,
Please share this information to interested job seekers:
Airport Concessions, Inc. is hosting a Job Fair for Sales Associates at their corporate office on Friday, September 24, 2010 from 9am – 1pm at their corporate office (NOT at the airport):
Airport Concessions, Inc
2535 Washington St
Denver, Co 80205
Minimum age is 18 and the position starts at $8.50 per hour.
- Sales Associate’s primary function is to provide the highest level of customer service attainable.
- Assists customers in making selections of merchandise, primarily items that are higher priced and require some explanation and selling skills.
- Assists in achieving sales goals by suggestive selling to every customer, up-grading sales by suggesting higher priced merchandise, practices “add on selling” with every customer.
- Executes all transactions completely by scanning items correctly, accounting for all funds tendered to pay for merchandise, and depositing all collected funds in accordance with current policy and procedures.
- Assists customers with general Airport information requests.
- Maintains all standards related to customer service, merchandise presentations, displays, teamwork, and generally accepted “daily retail” tasks as assigned.
- To be on the job when scheduled, adhere to and implement all company rules, policies and procedures.
- You must be available Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays.
- All other duties as assigned or determined to be essential to job performance.
- You will be eligible for benefits after the period of 90 day closed review and vacation after 1 year.
Please log-on to www.ConnectingColorado.com and search job # 5361422 to ensure you meet other qualifications to apply.
Job Fair Calendar updated
Notices of some new local job fairs landed in my in-box, so I’ve updated the list in the right column. Here are some of the events happening this spring:
Colorado Construction Industry Job Fair
21-APR-09:8:30AM-2:30PM
National Western Expo Hall, Level 2
4655 Humboldt St., 80216
Fort Carson Defense Technology & Intelligence Career Fair
21-APR-09: 10:00AM-2:00PM
Elkhorn Catering & Conference Center
1725 Woodfill Road, Building # 7300
Fort Carson, CO 80913
Peterson AFB Defense Technology & Intelligence Career Fair
22-APR-09: 10:00AM-2:00PM
Peterson Club
260 Glasgow Avenue, Building 1013
Peterson AFB, CO 80914
Post-News Diversity Job Fair
22-APR-09: 10:00AM-3:00PM
INVESCO Field at Mile High
1701 Mile High Stadium Cir W, 80204
Jobing.com Fair
28-APR-09: 2:00PM-6:00PM
Colorado Convention Center
700 14th Street, 80202-3213
RecruitMilitary Career Fair
7-MAY-09: 11:00AM-3:00PM
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum
7711 East Academy Blvd, 80230
Women Job Fair
14-MAY-09 10:00AM-3:00PM
The Oxford Hotel
1600 17th St, 80202
Post-News Healthcare Job Fair
20-MAY-09: 10:00AM-3:00PM
Belmar Center
405 S Teller St,80226
Denver Career Fair
27-MAY-09: 11:00AM-2:00PM
Crowne Plaza Denver
1450 Glenarm Place, 80202
Job Fair Calendar updated
More Colorado job fairs are popping up, most recently the 1st Annual Sustainability Career Fair on March 19, 2009. This new event is sponsored by the University of Colorado at Denver Career Center in conjunction with the Denver’s Office of Economic Development. Registration is limited and must be completed on-line at www.careers.cudenver.edu. The fair will run from 1:30PM to 4:00PM at the Colorado Convention Center.
Readers can find a full list of all the known job fairs at the bottom of the column on the right.
Related Link: How to Work a Job Fair from Workforce Colorado.
NotJobs: "Well, if I can’t find anything better…"
Brett Nordquist has an article about a recent encounter at a career fair:
About an hour into the fair, a man approached my booth and we chatted for a few minutes. Before he left he picked up one of my business cards and said:
Well, if I can’t find anything better, I’ll give you a call and see if we can work something out.
That’s always the best way to show commitment to your potential employer.
Job Fair Calendar updated
The Job Fair vendors are starting to leak their event calendars for 2008, so I’ve been able to update the Career Fair block. It looks like we’ll know more even after the first of the year.
How Not to Get A Job: Skip a Career Fair
A Career Fair is an ancient and honorable way to find a job. If you want to increase your chances of finding work, go to a Fair.
One service I intend to provide with this blog is an up-to-date list of Colorado Career Fairs. See my calendar in the lower part of the right-hand column. Any assistance, corrections or changes can be sent to notjobs -AT- bettingers.org.
Did you know that Career Fairs pre-date HR departments? In fact, after networking, the Career Fair (a.k.a. Job Fair, Hiring Fair or Employment Fair) is the oldest form of recruitment activity. Job Fairs started in the late Middle Ages as events called “Mop Fairs”. After the the Black Death ravaged Europe, the manor system suffered from a severe labor shortage. Employers needing to find workers would attend a Mop Fair held in the market town in their area. Some towns have been holding Mop Fairs for over 700 years.
Workers looking for a position would gather around the village green or market square. Since the mostly illiterate population had no way of printing a resume (this was also pre-Gutenberg), candidates would carry an item indicating their trade, or wear an item in their hat. A shepherd had wool, a cook had a spoon, a gardener had flowers, and a carter had a leather whip. The unskilled would carry a mop, indicating their willingness to clean up. The number of unskilled laborers gave the fairs their name.
Hiring was simple: Employers (often a steward, butler or chamberlain) walked around the square, looking for a particular sign in the hands of a likely candidate. The two would talk about the work and the benefits (generally, meals and housing, but stout castle walls could provide added life insurance and job security). After coming to an agreement, the employer gave the worker a few pence to seal the deal (a hiring bonus). The candidate would hide the sign of his or her job and don a bunch of colored ribbons to show they were off the market. Vendors of food and drink lined the edge of the square, ready to provide sustenance to the newly employed.
Today, some English villages still have a Mop Fair, but the emphasis is on rides, food and drink and not on employment. But the idea that candidate and company can gather together in one place is still working. Now, just as in 1351, if you want to find work you should go to the Fair.
For more, see: Wikipedia on Mop Fairs
