Why Job Fairs Stink — and the Superior Recruiting Alternatives 

Job fairs stink as a hiring source. They don’t even make it on Jobvite’s top 13 list of most effective recruiting sources, and typically they produce less than 2% of all experienced hires. HR executives rated job fairs as the least effective job-search method, with a survey rating of only 1.6 out of a possible 5. And with the seemingly endless list of “what’s wrong with job fairs” presented here, I wonder why organizations still bother with them in this age of technology when there are so many better alternatives available.