People of All Ages, Races and Backgrounds Want Jobs

Who comes to job fairs? What is their ethnicity? Race? Age?

San Bernardino, CA (PRWEB) April 5, 2006 -- When the Inland Empire Career Diversity & Job Fair conducts this year’s eight events, about 40 businesses and 1,500 job seekers will take part in each one.

The employers searching for capable area talent will include CalTrans, the Riverside and San Bernardino County’s Blood Banks, the global mapping systems leader ESRI, the Ronald McDonald House and the Rialto and Colton school districts among many others.

But, who are the attendees? Who are the people looking to work in the Inland Empire instead of slugging their way to and from L.A. and Orange County?

From past fairs organizers know that among teens 34 percent are Hispanic, 33 percent are African American and 24 percent are white. About half are searching for career changes, another 23 percent are already working part time and at least 16 percent are scouting for their first job. More than half, 54percent , are female with the rest, obviously, male.
    
Numbers change, however, with people in there 20s. Fully 37 percent will be Hispanic with another 37 percent white, while African Americans make up about 28percent. Males will comprise 55 percent and females the remaining 45percent. Around 40 percent are working full time, 25 percent are part timers, 9 percent are looking to switch positions and as many as 45 percent are currently unemployed.
    
Attendees in their 30s have a slightly different makeup with approximately 33 percent each African American, Hispanic and white. Up to 60 percent are looking to change jobs, 25 percent are employed part time while only 15 percent are working full time. About 70 percent are female and the rest are male.
    
Among older job seekers, those from 50-70, the figures are radically different. That is, half are white, a quarter are African American and just 8 percent are Hispanic. As many as 60 percent of the seniors are employed part time, just 20 percent are working full time and 15 percent are unemployed but looking to change that situation through the Diversity Job Fair. Males make up 63 percent and females the remaining 37 percent .

What’s it all mean? To organizers it’s simple: People of all ages, races, and backgrounds want jobs. And the Inland Empire Career Diversity & Job Fair is there to help. The creator, Carl Dameron of San Bernardino’s Dameron Communications, puts it this way: “Our goal is to put together those who want work and those who want workers. Too often, employers assume minorities won’t fit in or won’t be interested in their companies. Nothing could be further from the truth. The 15-20,000 people coming to our eight Job Fairs this year are proof of that. Remember, the unemployment rate for blacks and Hispanics is three times greater than for whites, and the Job Fairs can remedy that on the spot.”
    
The next Job Fair is slated for April 5 at the San Bernardino National Orange Show Events Center, followed April 26 by one in Indio and on May 3 in Riverside. Other events are scheduled for August 2, August 9, September 6 and October 4. Sponsors include the Inland Empire and Victorville African American Chambers of Commerce, The National American Unity Association, 909Models.com, publications including Black Voice News, Precinct Reporter, WestSide Story and El Chicano plus Dameron Communications.
    
For details, call Dameron Communications at (909) 888-0017.

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