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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Alan Fogg,
afogg@fceda.org
703-790-0600
CD-ROM technology will aid job seekers, companies attending Oct. 4 High-Tech Career Fair in Fairfax
Resumes will be distributed promptly to all participating firms in an effort to fill massive job vacancies at tech firms
Fairfax County, Virginia September 15, 1999 — Thanks to technology and a novel arrangement worked out among companies, job seekers attending an Oct. 4 career fair in Fairfax will see their resumes distributed automatically to up to 35 Fairfax County high-tech companies.
Prospective employees attending High-Tech Career Fair ’99 at the Fairfax County Government Center will have their resumes scanned on the spot. The resumes will then be transferred onto CD-ROMs that will be distributed within one week to all companies that participate in the event. Usually companies participating in job fairs do not share resumes they receive with other firms attending the same fairs. Further, distribution of resumes is not usually guaranteed.
Also, the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority will add to the CD-ROMs resumes collected at job fairs this fall at the University of California-Berkeley and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. The FCEDA is a co-sponsor of High-Tech Career Fair ’99.
The unusual arrangement for the career fair was conceived because of the record number of unfilled jobs at local technology firms. Up to 30,000 high-tech jobs are going begging in Northern Virginia alone, according to Donald Upson, the state secretary of technology.
Among the companies that will be recruiting at the fair are: CACI, GRC International, Net2000 Communications and Reliable Integration Services.
Fairfax County is the fastest growing technology hub on the East Coast, with more than 1,000 firms working in telecommunications, Internet service and e-commerce, software development, systems integration, aerospace and biotechnology. County technology start-up firms this year have attracted record amounts of venture capital, which is critical for entrepreneurs who want to bring new goods and services to the marketplace.
The Economic Development Authority provides a wide array of services and information designed to promote Fairfax County as a world center of commerce and trade. FCEDA marketing managers attended job fairs across the country in the spring, and will attend nine of them this school year in an effort to aid local technology companies. Resumes collected at the job fairs are distributed to the Northern Virginia Regional Partnership, which is charged with workforce training and development in the area.
Information about the FCEDA’s programs and services is available on the FCEDA’s Web page at www.FairfaxCountyEDA.org.
The Fairfax County Government Center is at 12000 Government Center Drive in Fairfax.
High-Tech Career Fair ’99 is a production of Celebrate Fairfax Inc., which also produces the Fairfax Fair and Fall for Fairfax. Another career fair sponsor is the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
Reporters, editors and producers: Gerald Gordon, president of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, is available to discuss this and other workforce development efforts.
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