How to Plan a Networking EventIn Feburary 2016 18,

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Begin planning eight weeks ahead of an event by creating a short list of dates and sites. Check calendars to avoid conflicts with related events, such as meetings or conferences that could draw your potential audience elsewhere. Evaluate venues for logistical issues such as easy access to parking, capacity and security to minimize or eliminate issues that make it hard for people to attend.
Delegate Responsibilities
Create a committee to share the workload, especially for larger events. Seek out volunteers for the key positions of chairman, vice chairman, secretary and program director. Once you fill those slots, schedule a meeting to discuss your expectations. Iron out issues such as hiring guest speakers, and assign committee members to handle specific tasks, such as budgeting and publicity.
Determine Your Format
Choose activities that encourage guests to mingle freely and share details about themselves or their professional activities. For example, ask that participants chat with three people they haven't met before or who work in a similar field, according to 'Entrepreneur' magazine. Alternatively, invite attendees to bring information about their products and services, then set aside a table to display these items. Also, appoint volunteers who can greet people as they arrive and help them fill out name tags.
Review the Site
Tour the venue weeks before the event. Meet the manager to ensure that he can commit the space to your group. If you're renting the site, discuss any terms that might affect attendance, such as whether you can post signs on-site to direct attendees to the right place. Also, ask how the manager will ease issues that work against easy mingling, such as large numbers of tables and chairs.
Set a Marketing Strategy
Develop a list of people to send emails, brochures or postcards about your event. If you target a specific group, check databases for members living within driving distance. Focus on reaching your most likely attendees first by emailing them a month in advance. Then send an email reminder a week before the event. Keep extra postcards and print materials for passing out among your own contacts, who can help get the word out.
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How to Set Up a Virtual Job FairIn Feburary 2016 16,

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Plan the website design. The job fair website should function properly and allow easy browsing. Use paper to lay out the overall web design, including any links to employers or information content. Talk to job seekers or hire a professional research company to conduct surveys to determine what potential employees in your area look for on an employment site. Important website details include job qualifications, salary, and application requirements and due dates.
Write content for the job fair site and solicit companies. Interesting content attracts job seekers eager to learn more about the hiring company and details about job offerings. Interview employers about positions and write up job descriptions with the information collected. Carefully review content to ensure that captions match the images you will add to the site and that the content is free from grammatical errors. Errors such as these make the virtual job fair appear less reputable.
Take photos of and film company staff and other action for the website. Job seekers enjoy seeing online interviews with staff members of companies that are searching for employees. Develop a list of questions for live-action interviews on the website. Edit the interviews, still photos and action shots. Set up direct links to companies' human resource departments from your job fair website.
Build the website and select a web hosting company. If you're building your own website, begin inserting your content and images into the site. If you're contracting the work, interview web builders who will do the construction. Shop web hosting companies for search engine optimization (SEO) placement of your virtual job fair. Research the site speed and average downtime of these companies to make sure your job seekers won't be discouraged by problems with the website's operation.
Promotion is the key to a successful virtual job fair. Develop a promotion plan and list the necessary steps using a calendar. Create a press release announcing the fair and make a distribution list of web addresses. College, university and high school career centers; neighborhood and regional job training programs; and community centers attract potential site visitors. Send press releases to print and online newspapers. An early announcement before the event has a greater chance of drawing job seekers. Make the first announcement at least two months in advance, followed by another one month before the event and a reminder a week and several days before the event.
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