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I went to this and I can tell you there were far more than 24 candidates that didn't show up. In the first room alone, there were more empty positions than the

I went to this and I can tell you there were far more than 24 candidates that didn't show up. In the first room alone, there were more empty positions than there were filled ones. It was so bad, at one point as I was working on modifying candidate short list (over 75% weren't there) I got asked if I was a candidate myself! As a result of the no-shows, the recruiter to candidate ratio was probably 5 to 1, which caused lines to form around the existing job-seekers. The space was hardly big enough as it was - I can't imagine what we would have done if all the candidates showed up too. I think the event was was a good experiment, but frankly for the price it wasn't worth my time to attend. I'd much rather see a speed-dating format. That way everyone gets to talk to each other and you work around the issue of having more recruiters than candidates.

bluehat 15y ago
Hey, I co-organized this event, so the actual statistics were that out of 97 registered candidates under 10 dropped of their own accord and there were 40 no-shows. There were approximately 50 companies attending. While the ratio was not great, and the fact that most companies sent at least two people made the odds of humans bizarre, a 1:1 ratio is not what we hoped for but not 5:1. At the last fair we got about 2:1 candidates to recruiters, which was closer to what we were hoping for. At the next fair we plan to take $20 deposits which can be refunded by either attending the fair or giving 48 hours warning that you are dropping out. At this fair we actually had to stop accepting candidates because we had so many that we were running out of room and worried the ratio would go too far the other way.