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While our local job-board vendors keep exclaiming how they are innovating by creating white-labeled copies of their existing products (both Brightspyre and Rozee btw), Bayt.com actually ends up doing something remarkable.
They’re holding the world’s first "virtual job fair" – a second-life-esque affair where each participating company will be given a virtual booth to showcase their company at. Attendees will be able have live video conversations with company reps at their booths, all connected via VoIP feeds.
This is what being remarkable is about – taking some big risks that get people (like me) want to talk about the service. The talk creates hype which eventually can make events like these exciting and successful.
Very cool – if any of you are participating in this pls do share your experience.
[Via the StartupArabia blog]
May 15th, 2008 at 9:10 am
nice … that really is a cool idea … I didn’t know that they catered to Pakistani job market too. Does anybody know if there’ll be any Pakistani recruiters taking part in this virtual job fair?
May 15th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Just a correction that it is Middle East First Ever Virtual Job Fair and not “World’s”. They have mentioned that in their website too.
http://virtualjobfair.bayt.com/en_CA/guest/employers
May 15th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Impressed
May 20th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I think its the nice effort which help alot to the fresh graduates. I hope others will also take an initiative for such sort of healthy activities
May 21st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
its nice & good initiative.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I hope they have bandwidth. Don’t want a virtual ITCN.
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:27 am
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