The National JOB FAIR - Sept. 17-18, 2003

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Posted by dEsidEL on Sep-16-2003 03:50:

The National JOB FAIR - Sept. 17-18, 2003

:: Info Fair :: Presented in
collaboration with

Information :: Audience Target

Date

September 17 and 18, 2003

Site

Metro Toronto Convention Centre
North Building, Hall C
255 Front Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5V 2W6

Admission

$3.50

Opening Hours

From 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (two days)

List of Exhibitors

To be posted
(September 16, 2003)

Public Presentation Schedule - Central Stage

To be posted soon

How to Get There

By car

From the west:

Take the 401 East to 427 South
Follow the Gardiner Expressway and exit at Spadina Avenue and go north
For the North Building, proceed farther north on Spadina Avenue to Front Street and turn right

From the east:

Take the 401 West to the Don Valley Parkway south
Follow the Gardiner Expressway to Spadina Avenue and go north
For the North Building, proceed farther north on Spadina Avenue to Front Street and turn right

By train & bus

Union Station, Toronto's main rail station, is a block away from the Convention Centre,
and the two are connected by the weather-protected Skywalk. The Bus Terminal is just
five minutes away by cab, 10 minutes by public transit.

By public transit

Streetcars, buses, subways and GO trains provide the city with one of North America's safest and most efficient public transit systems. It connects all parts of Toronto and outlying areas to Union Station, the city's transportation hub. Union Station is accessible from the Centre via the Skywalk.

http://www.thenationaljobfair.com/info-fair-vis.html

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This thread isn't about things that are bad about job fairs, but to help out those who are looking for it ..

Posted by Resnick on Sep-16-2003 03:53:

anyone ever been to this?

is it for studens? full time? how easy is it to find job?

*cough liam get ur ass down there u bum

Posted by TranceKitten on Sep-16-2003 04:01:

hmm I don't know, I've never been to this kind of things,I'm considering it, but I would like some feedback tho from the ppl that have been if possible

Posted by DigiNut on Sep-16-2003 04:02:

Primerica, here we come!

Posted by tha_broad on Sep-16-2003 04:19:

LOL im down there already....this way i can REALLY type up that letter from the J00F thread....

EMPLOY ME!!!!!!!

Posted by ryanm on Sep-16-2003 14:01:

I'll be going after work LOL

Posted by Trigger on Sep-16-2003 14:47:

I went last year and to be honest it was quite lame. Not even worth the $3.50. Any worthwile booths had lines as long as a special event at the Guvt just to hand them your resume! There's no way I'm waiting 45 mins (which was what some people had been waiting) to drop off my resume along with 3000 other people. The resume consultation lines were just as bad so basically ended up walking around looking at a bunch of half assed booths that were all no-name companies anyway. The cops had a booth and some model agency which was the only one I enjoyed since they had some hot models working it Other than that I found it to be a complete waste of time. Others I talked to felt the same. Not sure if this year will be different but I doubt it.

Posted by .:BustaGroove:. on Sep-16-2003 15:44:

what sorts of jobs do they have to offer?

Posted by Richard Taylor on Sep-16-2003 15:58:

I am definitely going to this...does anyone want to come along with me?

Peace,
Rich

Posted by DigiNut on Sep-16-2003 16:01:

quote:
Originally posted by .:BustaGroove:.
what sorts of jobs do they have to offer?

Well, either people didn't take me seriously or they didn't know what I was talking about - these events usually tend to be pretty choked up with companies like Primerica, Vector Marketing, etc. Basically these companies are always on the lookout for more workers because (a) they can hardly get any, and (b) labour for them is cheap because they pay just on commission, or some ridiculously low salary plus commission. Even though they're legit companies, they feel very "scammy" when you deal with them.

There are always some good companies, of course, but like Trigger said, there's an insane amount of competition for them, so it's hardly even worth it.

I personally do not recommend going unless you're very desperate or fresh out of high school (or still in high school).

Posted by dEsidEL on Sep-16-2003 16:07:

wells ... if one is unemployed, and sitting around at home doing nothing ANYWAYS .. then hey why not go!

(not to say this is me, but ya get the point ..)

Posted by drgoodvibe on Sep-16-2003 16:23:

well their listing the exhibitors today, or so the website says.. not yet as of right now though (i just checked) should be interesting once we find out.. I gotta get my resume ready.. the only problem realy is.. is that i've had so many different kinds and levels of education and different kinds of jobs that i'm not exactly sure where I fit in. I'm sure i'd be much over qualified for some jobs.. and much under qualified for others.. BLAH!

Posted by tha_broad on Sep-16-2003 17:08:

quote:
Originally posted by dEsidEL
wells ... if one is unemployed, and sitting around at home doing nothing ANYWAYS .. then hey why not go!

(not to say this is me, but ya get the point ..)

Please dont talk about me when im not around.

Thanx :P

Posted by torontotrance on Sep-16-2003 18:33:

Vector is the absolute worst company to work for.....i worked for them...a few yrs ago....they were sooo concerned about sales....they tell you oversell your own family.....that's wrong and just stupid. So I quit that job....I dunno if I will go down there...i got a job interview tomorrow and the day after....so we shall see.

Posted by Mr. Furious on Sep-17-2003 04:21:

Everyone I know that went to the last one said it was pure crap.

Posted by dEsidEL on Sep-17-2003 04:23:

is there such thing as a good job fair these days .. ?

Posted by tha_broad on Sep-17-2003 04:31:

hmm.....i almost wasnt gonna make it tomorrow, but im gonna go anyways.....

if only i knew what my resume looked like (Em?)

Posted by Mr. Furious on Sep-17-2003 04:39:

quote:
Originally posted by dEsidEL
is there such thing as a good job fair these days .. ?

Well, when I said sucked I just meant that the job fields were extremely limited to mostly blue collar jobs.

Posted by dEsidEL on Sep-17-2003 04:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Furious
Well, when I said sucked I just meant that the job fields were extremely limited to mostly blue collar jobs.

i've heard that there are job fairs in Las Vegas for the porn industry ..

anyone interested in starting a smut site .. ?? we can get tha_broad as our first model ..

Posted by DigiNut on Sep-17-2003 04:48:

quote:
Originally posted by dEsidEL
i've heard that there are job fairs in Las Vegas for the porn industry ..

anyone interested in starting a smut site .. ?? we can get tha_broad as our first model ..

And if we have trouble finding models, we can always put up countless photoshopped pictures of partyprincess.

Posted by dEsidEL on Sep-17-2003 05:02:

quote:
Originally posted by DigiNut
And if we have trouble finding models, we can always put up countless photoshopped pictures of partyprincess.

.. do you always open cans ??

Posted by tha_broad on Sep-17-2003 06:02:

Posted by Slag on Sep-17-2003 19:21:

quote:
Originally posted by Resnick
*cough liam get ur ass down there u bum

haha so true

Posted by BANDIT on Sep-17-2003 23:14:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Furious
Everyone I know that went to the last one said it was pure crap.

AND SO IS THIS ONE
I went today @ 11am, I was standing in a line which turned out to be a spiral line LOL, after going in I said to myself WTF is this? It was soooooo small, overpacked and there was like 1-2 IT Jobs only...
Waste of time if you ask me

Posted by TranceKitten on Sep-18-2003 04:16:

I was gonna go there today but for some reason decided to check the list of companies in the morning, I meant checking last nite but forgot about it...anyways, by the companies that were going to be there I knew not many IT jobs would be offered, they had a lot of IT spokespeople(is that even a wrd?lol) but that doesn't do any good to me....So I decided not to go
I'm looking into applying at the new Guelph-Humber for IT jobs, they have some at the moment. Pay is not great tho, remember this is for students but right now I just want something chilled and I don't need much atm, I'll call it my partying stash of dough for the fall.

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