VJF Conference Call-Welcome Everyone!

● Conference call for all SLAC members to discuss the two vendors (Brazen & CareerEco) we are considering for our first ever virtual job fair (actually it is the third but we won’t talk about the first two)!
● The date for the conference call is Monday, November 19th at 2:00 PM. Mark your calendars now
● The date for the SLAC Virtual Job Fair is:
Tuesday, April 2, 2013


SUMMARY OF WEBINARS:
Brazen
www.brazencareerist.com
Notes:
-We can create registration pages for both students and employers
-We can use our logo which means we will have to develop one
-All we have to do is drive the students and employers to the url
-Brazen will send us summary reports
-Should have stat downloads ready
-One day usually for 3-4 hours
-Live chats between employers and students
-Students get electronically in line
-Student can register without uploading resume
-Brazen can send us students resumes before fair to review
-Students can upload a photo
-Brazen uses their own videos to help students
-The “Lobby” is the room students and employers go to
-Students can see how long lines are and wait in as many lines as they want
-Students can view jobs, etc.
-Students rate recruiters
-The employers have booths with their logos; can leave employers notes in case they did not see them.
-Employers will receive a master report summary
-They do everything-all we have to do is email our employers and students
-this is not a money maker.
-How the fair works:-real time chat rooms; employers setup chat time schedules; Students sign-up for those times; students look for jobs and employers>submit resumes>schedule chats

Cost: (One fair)
Revenue Sharing: (50% of what we charge employers)
-$2500 and 50% of all revenues we receive (this is not a money maker)
Non-Revenue Sharing: (0% of what we charge employers)
-$4,000 for one fair (if we had 20 employers at $200 that would cover our cost)
Click here for their cost models
Click here for their presentation
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CareerEco
http://careereco.net/
Notes:
-schools who have used them-GA Tech, Purdue, Auburn, etc.
-very positive feedback from employers and schools that have used them
-chat rooms for individual, group and video chats
-the employers choose the hours they wish to chat
-smaller schools usually run the event for one day-larger school three days
-students can pre-register and place resumes in resume books
-employers can look at pre-registered students and communicate with them
-employers have their own webpage and CareerEco sets it up for them
-we can use a slac logo and our school logos
-they do a summary report for employers and schools-can break data down by schools
-employers do have flexibility in creating their webpage
-students can have multiple chats and view everyone in the chat room
-students can also have private chats with employers-not real sure how they do this?
-employers do see everyone in chat rooms
-employers can “save” chats for later use
-CareerEco can provide employers with transcripts of chats-not sure if they can provide students or us?
-employers can change color of their rooms
-they do all the marketing to employers and students
-all we need to do is send the marketing materials out to our employers and students
-they do have their employer database that they will invite
-minimum number of employers is 15-less than that they cannot host
-students are not seen as “in-line” they are simply in a chat room and can go from one chat room to another very easily
-they do follow up surveys

-Pricing:
$395 employers who register on time
$495 employers with late registration
If we choose to use the $395 fee for employers we get a revenue share of $100
If we choose to not revenue share, the fee for the employers would be $295 and we would get $0 (on-time employer registration) or $395 (late employer registration)
*there are no fees for consortium

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From Summer Meeting:
*From our summer meeting, we felt Brazen was the one to use due to the pricing structure and the one day length format. After a discussion, the date was chosen and it is Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013. The time options were either 2-6 or 3-7 PM. The group felt the employer fee should be $150 to $200.