Learn how to create a new Career Fair event for your career center in this guide.
Getting Started: Setting Up Your Career Fair
Before creating a virtual or in-person career fair, gather the following essential information:
- Event dates and times
- Start and end dates (with specific times).
- Registration open/close dates for exhibitors and attendees (with times).
- Exhibitor package details
- Package pricing.
- Does the package include resume access?
- Are job posting credits part of the deal?
- Attendee features
- Should attendees be able to search job postings using a Conference Job Match filter?
- Additional details
- Event description.
- Exhibitor information.
- Event time zone.
- Dates to disable resume database search or job match filters.
- A cover photo (1200x400 px).
- Optional: Booth floor plan.
Once you’ve gathered all the above, you're ready to create the event in the ****admin.
Accessing Events in the admin panel
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Log in to the admin panel. See more here: ‣
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Click Events in the left-hand menu.
You’ll see a full list of all events.
Creating a New Event
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Click the +New Event button in the top-right corner.
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Fill out the event details using the information you collected earlier.
Event Status
Select the status:
- Active: Makes the event live so attendees and exhibitors can register.