Education Fairs
How the
San Diego Education Consortium can help your organization
The most efficient and effective way to heighten awareness
of educational opportunities is to hold an Education Fair
at your company. At this Ed. Fair, members of the Consortium
will provide employees with information from their respective
degree granting institutions.
What exactly is an Education Fair?
An Education Fair convenes representatives from a variety
of colleges and universities at a corporate or community location.
Each school is provided a table to display brochures, catalogs
and other materials. Employees that are prospective students
can then shop the schools to gather information and speak
with counselors from the participating institutions about
continuing education opportunities that best suit their particular
needs.
Where Education Fairs are held
Education Fairs are held in company cafeterias, corporate
lobbies or in other high traffic areas easily accessible and
visible to employees. Fairs are typically held midweek on
workdays—Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday—usually
for three hours; for example, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Days, times, and the location of your Ed Fair should be carefully
thought out so that it provides maximum benefit to your employees.
Benefits of hosting an Education Fair
Hosting an Education Fair is a convenient, cost-efficient
way for your organization to demonstrate its commitment to
the training and education of its employees. Instead of inviting
individual schools to make presentations to employees on different
dates throughout the year, hosting an Ed Fair improves productivity
by saving your organization time and effort.
Educational Resource Center
After the Ed Fair is an ideal time for your organization to
collect flyers and catalogs from participating schools to
store on-site as an Educational Resource Center to better
serve employees throughout the year. This Educational Resource
Center can be a designated shelf and bulletin board displaying
programs of schools approved by your organization that can
be freely accessed without interfering with the duties of
the human resources or training department.
Steps to setting up an Education Fair
The host organization decides the date and provides the venue,
tables and chairs for each school. The Consortium does the
rest. We contact and invite all of the schools, provide a
coordinator to work as a liaison with the host organization
and assist you the host in the preparation of fliers or other
publicity materials for the internal promotion of the event.
Further
benefits include:
• NO charge for the sponsoring organization
• NO cost to invite schools
• NO cost for catalogs and materials distributed to
employees
Please contact your consortium representative to begin setting up an Education Fair/Expo designed to meet the needs of your organization.