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“Summer Job Fair and Business Opportunity Expo will Flourish with Hiring Companies” Expo Giant.com Oakland and Wayne Counties largest expo event host is planning a series of ten Job Fair and Business Opportunity Expo events with a mission to employ thousands of jobseekers in 2010. The next “Empowering Michigan Career Expo” will take place on Thursday, July 29, 2010 for 9:00am-3:00pm at the Holiday Inn Hotel 17201 Northline Road, Southgate, Michigan. Several local companies will be present and ready to interview and discuss hiring opportunities. Representatives from the Unemployment Insurance Agency will be available to answer basic questions about unemployment and the extensions that are available. As part of the Buy Michigan First initiative, the Michigan Department of Management and Budget (DMB) will be on site to encourage Michigan businesses to register as vendors and bid on more than 1,100 multi year contracts worth billions of dollars. Information regarding free seminars to guide...

Career Fair Success Strategies by Maureen Crawford Hentz Career Fairs can occasionally be intimidating. As a job-seeker, you must distinguish yourself from hundreds or even thousands of other job applicants. The following are a few simple strategies to help you stand out from the crowd. Find a Fair. Many career fairs are free, but some require a registration and/or fee. The first place to look for a career fair is your alma mater. Colleges and universities routinely hold career fairs for students and alumni. Call your college's career service office and find out if you need to register and what the general format of the fair will be. Professional organizations also often sponsor large career fairs at their national and regional conferences. Many organizations require membership for admission to the conference and career fair, but some sell day-long "placement-only" admission. Unsure about which professional associations would be best for you and which career fairs will h...

If you are truly doing a good job of finding a job, you will find yourself (and your career) placed under a huge microscope. Active participants in the job seeking game put themselves under the microscope to assess their current reality (where they are), and their vision (where they want to be). They identify their strengths and their weaknesses so they not only know what they are most suited to do in a new job, but how to communicate their value to potential employers. In essence, informed job seekers know themselves and how to communicate that effectively to the people who are apt to hire them. But after the interview -- after you have filled out an application -- and before the offer, what can these hiring authorities really learn about you? Besides the presentation of the strengths and weaknesses that you formally present to an employer, what will they find out when they look deeper into your background? When you are searching for a job, make sure that the picture you paint for a p...