A brand new 2021 calendar of digital profession occasions is designed for job seekers to search out the correct jobs, and for firms to search out the correct workers. A mixture of themes brings different choices.
Profession Day is now not reserved for top schoolers and job festivals for the enervated. No time has been higher for the at all times in-demand tech execs to take a look at the wealth of alternatives obtainable to them. Not solely are there extra job alternatives obtainable to expert tech execs, however it’s change into more and more straightforward to search out venues that can information you to an excellent match between your ability set and firms’ wants.
The pandemic pressured the enterprise to embrace the worth and comfort of on-line communications. Recent from a 2020 success of 23 digital occasions reaching a 64% attendance price (28% above the trade benchmark), and producing 8,500 real-time chats between recruiters and candidates, tech-career hub Cube launched its 2021 Calendar of Digital Occasions.
As TechRepublic reported final week, as tech evolves, it is vital that these within the area are at all times conscious of the modifications, not solely in know-how, however the state of the businesses they aspire to work for: “To maintain aggressive and even simply to maintain up, staff are going to must be consistently present, and 58% of the workforce might want to develop new ability units to do their jobs efficiently. A brand new report from Gartner TalentNeuron stated that one in three expertise in a median 2017 IT job posting are already out of date, and information signifies that the overall variety of expertise required for a single place has elevated 10% 12 months over 12 months since 2017.”
The 2021 digital occasions calendar consists of profession occasions of various pursuits: for instance, centered on ladies and variety in tech, school grads/interns, regional audiences, particular ability units, and extra. Job seekers can study employers by means of their posted jobs, content material and movies, and might simply join with recruiters throughout occasions by means of textual content, audio or video. Recruiters can construct model consciousness, see elevated candidate engagement, encourage candidate pipelining, and scale back time to rent.
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Addison Group’s Claudia Johnson, vp inner recruiting, provided the next solutions for job seekers and ways in which new candidates can stand out: Know the trade language (present you’ll be able to rapidly acclimate to a brand new surroundings); come ready with real-life examples (recruiters need to hear the way you handled adversity or exhibited resilience), and show your capability to self encourage (present recruiters you’ll be able to navigate distant tech skills–23% need candidates who can function in a self-directed surroundings).
“Whereas we launched Cube’s Digital Profession Occasion program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the extraordinarily constructive suggestions we have acquired from each candidates and employers exhibits that there’s actual worth in shifting ahead with digital occasions,” stated Arie Kanofsky, chief income officer for DHI Group, Inc., dad or mum firm of Cube, in a press launch.
The Cube profession occasions for 2021 are:
- Feb. 24: Variety in tech
- March 10: Gaming networking and profession occasion
- March 31: School grad and interns occasion
- April 13: Staffing corporations occasion
- April 28: Girls in tech
- Could 12: IT operations
- Could 19: Healthcare sector
- June 16: Veterans in tech
- July 21: Variety in tech
- Aug. 18: Software program builders
- Sept. 29: Northeast regional tech occasion
- Oct. 13: Cloud-based occasion
- Oct. 20: Entrance-end design/growth
- Nov. 10: School grads and interns occasion
- Nov. 17: Variety in tech
These thinking about taking part (candidates and recruiters) can register and evaluation extra detailed data on the deliberate occasions.