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Unisfair, a company backed by Sequoia Capital and Norwest Venture Partners and with over 400 virtual events for clients as big as Cisco, IBM and National Instruments is to launch online virtual job fairs. The company has created an online recruiting tool that lets both recruiters and job seekers to interact live.
According to the company the purpose of the step is to remove the expenses of travel and in turn improve productivity of everything related to jobs, from searching to recruiting. The company’s own survey suggests that 64 % of people in the HR they find great ease and improvement in recruiting through the virtual system.
With 3 dimensional rendering of virtual reality to create an atmosphere of a convention centre, including exhibition floors, resource centre etc. The job seekers can work out the positions they have applied for and communicate via chat, email or instant messaging. The CEO, Guy Piekarz added;
“Virtual job fairs are helping HR professionals overcome recruiting challenges by enabling them to more cost effectively engage qualified job candidates without leaving their desks.”
With the entire world shifting over to the world of web, the step taken would definitely ease out the problems faced by both recruiters and job seekers.
