The Showcase is a lot like an online sales career fair. Multiple employers sign up to be a part of the Showcase campaign taking place in their city. (There are multiple Showcases taking place in several cities each month).CareerPlug then targets qualified sales professionals in the Showcase metro and invites them to visit the Career Showcase.  These candidates will then be asked to answer a set of questions to view a list of the jobs that match their experience. Once a candidate applies for a position, theCareerPlug team reviews their resume and passes only highly qualified candidates along to recruiters.

We will be launching Career Showcases starting in January of 2010 for New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Milwaukee and by mid-year we will have hosted Showcases in almost 40 cities nationwide.

Here’s a preview of topics we plan to cover (and those we’ll avoid).

Things we care about:

• Candidate sourcing and recruitment marketing trends
• Recruitment process outsourcing best practices – specifically Selective RPO
• Cool recruiting websites and technologies
• Applying a Sales/Marketing perspective to recruiting
• Recruiter productivity
• High-impact, cost-effective recruiting strategies
• Perspectives from industry leaders/innovators
• Motivational/Optimistic stories

Not so much:

• Recruiting gossip
• Pessimistic sentiment
• Old school, “What can you do for us?” recruiting