Friday, October 26, 2012

Largest Diversity Job Fair in Florida-More Than 4,000 Jobs and 75 Employers Amway Center- Orlando Florida


For Immediate Release (Orlando, FL): More than 4,000 current job openings will be showcased to jobseekers at the third annual Florida Blue, Florida Classic Career Expo & Diversity Job Fair in Orlando on November 16 at the Amway Center, put on by OrlandoJobs.com. These job openings represent more than 75 employers in a variety of industries, and include many professional, high-paying and diverse positions. In addition, the Career Expo will include five powerful seminars by career experts on topics including power interviewing, the 2013 resume must haves, LinkedIn tips to find jobs others cant, discovering your career path and job search strategies for senior professionals and executives. The job fair and all seminars are free for jobseekers.

"Florida companies are hiring, and this job fair is specifically designed for people who want to find real jobs with real salaries from over 75 well known Florida companies," states Roger Lear, President and CEO of OrlandoJobs.com.

Jobseekers can sign up for free at OrlandoJobs.com/jobfair. The full list of those 4,000 current open positions includes jobs in education, healthcare, IT, hospitality, engineering, sales and construction, as well as bilingual positions. Bright House, Chase Card Services and Kangaroo Express are the top sponsors. Many employers such as Orlando Health, Florida Blue, Home Depot, Orlando County Public Schools, Convergys, City of Orlando, Embry Riddle Aeronautical, Orlando VA Hospital, Universal Orlando, Verizon Wireless, McDonalds, and 60 other companies are attending. Companies can register for the event at orlandojobs.com/diversity.

"The job fair is a classic way for businesses and jobseekers to meet, but with the unemployment at 8.7% in Florida, jobseekers have been frustrated applying online and never getting any response. The Florida Blue, Florida Classic Career Expo & Diversity Job Fair is the one single event that showcases some of the state's finest companies in the pursuit of great diversified candidates."

Planned around the weekend of the Florida Classic football match-up between Bethune-Cookman University and Florida A&M University, organizers of the November 16th event are also donating sixty percent of the proceeds from booth revenue to a scholarship fund that is split between the two schools.

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About OrlandoJobs.com

OrlandoJobs.com is the official employment website of the Central Florida Human Resource Association (www.cfhra.org). At OrlandoJobs.com, we combine community marketing with the internet to bring candidates and employers together. Our success over the years is our ability to understand the value of human capital to a companys bottom line and the challenges involved in the recruiting of individuals to meet these needs. An industry leader, OrlandoJobs.com publishes a bi-annual employment outlook study for the Central Florida region.
Contact:
 
Roger Lear, President
 
OrlandoJobs.com
 
roger@orlandojobs.com
 
(407) 645-4224
 
 

Thursday, October 04, 2012

OrlandoJobs.com and Orlando Weekly Announce Partnership Job Seekers and Job Openings Now Connected Across Multi-Platforms


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- October 4, 2012 (Orlando, FL) -- OrlandoJobs.com, the region's premier online job board, and Orlando Weekly newspaper today announce a new partnership designed to bring more job opportunities directly to job seekers through multi-platform promotions across both heavily trafficked entities.

The Central Florida region's jobseekers will now be able to find openings and apply via interconnected listings: in the print edition of Orlando Weekly, online at OrlandoWeekly.com, online at OrlandoJobs.com, and through special events the two companies will jointly host.

"This partnership is exciting because it brings more opportunities for anyone who is looking for a job to find one that is right for them in a more streamlined, targeted way," states Roger Lear, President of OrlandoJobs.com.

"Our research on the Orlando DMA job market uncovers thousands of good, open jobs each year, so the more ways we can put those openings in front of potential candidates, the faster our local economy can get back on track. Orlando Weekly exposes our job listings to a whole new pool of potential candidates," states OrlandoJobs.com co-founder, Scott Kotroba.

Jobseekers will find job listings from OrlandoJobs.com in the back two pages of Orlando Weekly starting this week.  Each will be cross-listed on the OrlandoJobs.com website with the same job identification number. Interested candidates simply input that job identification number to apply.

Orlando Weekly also considers this new endeavor a win-win-win scenario: for the job seeker, the employer, as well as the region.

 "Our audience is searching for quality job openings, so powering this kind of a partnership through our pages, our site and new, jointly-held events allows us to increase the level of service to the community," states Michael Wagner, publisher of Orlando Weekly.

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 OrlandoJobs.com is Central Florida’s #1 online job site, with an average of 100,000 visitors per month.  The site was founded in 2005 by Roger Lear and Scott Kotroba, and is the official employment website of the Central Florida Human Resource Association (www.cfhra.org).  President Roger Lear is a 25-year veteran leader in the executive search and internet recruiting industry in Central Florida and is a sought-after speaker on the subject of Web 2.0 and social media recruiting. Scott Kotroba, co-founder of OrlandoJobs.com, is also president of its sister company, GreatInsuranceJobs.com, the leading insurance employment website in the nation.

Orlando Weekly is an alternative newsweekly distributed in the Greater Orlando area of Florida. Every Thursday, 40,000 issues of the paper are distributed to more than 1,100 locations across Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. You can also find Orlando Weekly in more than 300 red street boxes (brown in downtown Orlando) in highly visible, well traveled areas around the region. More than 200,000 readers turn the paper each week for its calendar of events; coverage of the latest in movies, dining, local music and visual arts; and provocative stories on topics ranging from sports to sex to cyberspace to City Hall.

 
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Media Contact: Bradley Sparrow
407-645-4224 x2114