The national tour of the Keep America Working career fairs sponsored by Monster.com®, the leading global online career and recruitment resource and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:MWW), travels back to the East Coast this week in a journey that will include more than 140 stops across the nation throughout 2009. Since the tour was piloted in Boston at the end of February, 852 employers with more than 16,675 jobs to fill have met with more than 28,000 qualified job seekers ready to fill them. Thus far, the tour has included job fairs in Boston; New York City; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; Whippany, New Jersey; Cincinnati; Indianapolis; Chicago; Minneapolis; Nashville; Charlotte; Raleigh; Orlando; Atlanta; Jacksonville; Miami; Phoenix; Las Vegas; Denver; Houston; Dallas; Seattle; San Francisco; Los Angeles; Anaheim; San Diego; Kansas City, Missouri; Milwaukee; Detroit and Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The more than 16,675 jobs represented at the fairs are backed up by tens of thousands of jobs listed on Monster.com in these 30 metropolitan areas. This week the tour will stop tomorrow in New York City, in Washington, D.C on May 28 and in Burlington, Massachusetts on May 29.

At the core of the Keep America Working Tour is Monster’s mission to help rebuild the American workforce. The company presents these job fairs free of charge to both job seekers and Monster employers with current job openings to eliminate any cost barrier and encourage the greatest number of employers with available jobs to link face-to-face with people who need those jobs.

Using an innovative model that goes well beyond the traditional career fair, the Keep America Working Tour brings together the tools and expertise job seekers need not only to find a job, but also to help manage their careers. Job seekers who attend the career fairs can learn from Monster’s career experts by attending live theater presentations that provide the advice and techniques they need to truly stand out from the crowd in today’s tough job market. They can see Monster’s new career management tools and experience the all-new Monster.com. And finally, they can make the most of the on-site opportunity to meet face-to-face with market-leading employers with job opportunities. Employers who attend get to meet the highly qualified candidates they need to strengthen their recruiting pipelines and fill their open positions in an efficient manner.

“We attended the first Keep America Working career fair in Washington, D.C. in March. The location was great and you could just feel the excitement in the air,” said Tony Claiborne, recruiting manager of Chenega Federal Systems, a fully cleared professional services provider focused on the defense, intelligence and advanced technology sectors of the federal government. “Monster made the event more than a career fair by providing job search training for attendees in addition to the opportunity to connect with many companies with open jobs. We were looking for people with military backgrounds and clearance, and the range of people we saw was amazingly diverse. We identified two individuals who had the clearance we needed and were top quality. One is a technical writer for one of our contracts right now. Without a doubt, we’ll be attending more Monster Keep America Working job fairs. In fact, we’ll be at this Thursday’s fair when the tour returns to Washington, D.C.”

For more information about the job fairs in Monster’s Keep America Working Tour, visit http://monstervjf.adicio.com

Posted: 05|27|09 at 12:04 pm. Filed under: Fairs News.