Recruit & Select
Job Fairs
Pikes Peak Workforce Center Job Fairs are productive, high-energy events attracting up to 200 job seekers at our monthly events, and 500 to 1,000 for our annual USAA Community & Veterans Job Fair each November. Adult job fairs are held in Colorado Springs on the first Wednesday of each month. Young adult job fairs, for ages 16-24, are held in Colorado Springs and Woodland Park each spring.
- Targeted recruiting of job seekers is a key feature of PPWFC job fairs. PPWFC staff publicizes our job fairs to qualified candidates, based on the occupational requirements of employers attending the job fairs.
- Hundreds of job-ready candidates in one location.
- No-cost, highly-publicized turn-key events.
- The proof is in the results! Businesses fill nearly 8 out of 10 positions they bring to our job fairs.
- Start here to register for a job fair
Hiring Events
Are you facing challenges in finding suitable employees? If you have vacancies, a customized hiring event at the Pikes Peak Workforce Center can help you. Setting up an event is simple! Register to request a customized hiring event. Join dozens of employers holding no-cost hiring events at PPWFC’s main facility on a monthly basis. Have it your way!
- Customized hiring events offer recruiting and candidate selection in one day, at one location!
- Employers connect with qualified job seekers in PPWFC’s advanced recruiting center where applications, assessments, interviews, and selection can occur all in one day.
- Targeted recruiting efforts match candidate skill sets with your job requirements, yielding a pool of qualified candidates and
saving you time and money! - Start here: Hiring Event Registration
Job Postings
Post your next job opening in connectingcolorado.com! This state job search resource is a highly productive recruiting tool, at no direct cost to your company. It’s easy to use and helps your business meet EEOC requirements
- Connectingcolorado.com allows you to search more than 20,000 active job seekers in El Paso and Teller counties. It is one of the largest candidate pools in our region!
- Combined with the candidate screening expertise of your Pikes Peak Workforce Center professionals and the candidate alert feature in connectingcolorado.com, your job posting can be publicized to the most precisely matched candidates within hours of your posting.
Racial Disparities in Colorado’s Talent Pipeline
In Colorado, there is a gap between individuals who are white and individuals of color in relation to educating, training, hiring, and promoting our current workforce. This gap has significant implications for the state’s economic competitiveness and undermines our goal of a Colorado economy that works for all of us. Read more here Talent Equity Overview
What are the Components of a Quality Job?
“A quality job means one’s work is valued and respected and meaningfully contributes to the goals of the organization. It encompasses having a voice in one’s workplace and the opportunity to shape one’s work life, as well as having accessible opportunities to learn and grow. Quality work affords an individual the opportunity to save, to build the security and confidence that allows one to plan for the future, and to participate in the life of and see oneself as a valued member of a community.” Visit the Aspen Institute’s Blog to learn more.
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