Reason for a company representative should be quite straightforward – to bring forth knowledge about your company and that you are actively looking for new talent. You never know to what kind of starts you might find in an IT recruitment event.

Finding Top Talent

You are hiring people for an IT roles? IT Recruitment event has a lot of them – this should be a no-brainer. Especially if the participants have been invited individually to the event makes it easier to understand what kind of developers there are. Talking in a relaxed atmosphere with people makes it easier to approach multiple people during the event and understand how they behave in a non-interview setting.

Meeting Multiple Developers Fast

In an event you are able to meet a lot of people fast making it easy for yourself to evaluate who you might want to approach to have a long discussion with. While you are meeting people you are also bringing forth your company as its representative. This means that participants in the event will also get an understanding of what kind of people work in your company.

Event Specific Activities

In IT recruitment events they often facilitate speed dating or similar activities in which you can have a more private conversation with participants. Some other activities could be workshop where you give a challenging task to teams and see how they perform. Based on this you might want to take them all to an interview to see

how they are and how their teamwork was.

Little Effort = Big Impact

If you are able to deliver a presentation or workshop that has real value for the participants they will definitely remember you when they are looking for new opportunities. If an event has 40 people from a specific industry and they are all engaged with your presentation they will definitely spread the word. Either through word of mouth or social channels or all of them.

Aftermath

If you have nailed your participation in the event as a company participant you will get emails and contact requests after the event. It is critical that you react to these in timely fashion and don’t disregard anyone. If you treat these people lousily the word will spread again. Remember you are the image of your company. Harsh words, I know, but sometimes they are needed because after all you might forget something and I want to remind you of how important role you have as a company representative.