Exhibition stands hold ''lots of opportunities'' at jobs event
22 Apr 2009
A number of
exhibition stands were filled with information about employment opportunities at the recent Careers & Jobs Live event in London.
The ExCel building was filled with display stands distributing advice to visitors regarding their next step on the professional ladder.
With exhibitors attending on both April 19th and 20th, the event''s director Bruce M Birchall was pleased with how the weekend progressed.
He explained such occasions are vitally important to jobseekers as they can come along and take in 80 to 100 display stands in a short space of time.
"They will have an idea of what they want to do, but they will actually come and find something totally different, which they never considered as an opportunity for them," Mr Birchall asserted.
One of the
exhibition stands - known as the Walls of Opportunity and Training - displayed hundreds of live job vacancies and development openings, according to Jarvis Exhibitions.
The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills recently announced a £26.5 million fund to help boost vocational education levels in the capital.
It is part of a region-wide re-orientation of the training budget in response to the financial downturn.
The investment includes £15 million to help those who have lost, or fear they may lose, their jobs.
A further £11.5 million will help people who have been out of work for more than six months access training and get back into employment.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics recently showed the employment rate for people of working age was 74.1 per cent for the three months to January 2009.
This represents a 0.1 per cent fall from the previous quarter and a 0.7 per cent decline year-on-year.
It illustrates the importance of
exhibition stands at events such as Careers and Jobs Live, which has "loads of opportunities for all kinds of jobseekers, graduates and under graduates, apprentices and trainees", Jarvis Exhibitions stated.
