West Palm Beach, Florida – (February 12, 2008) – A Virtual Job Fair for Palm Beach County businesses to recruit new employees is being held by Workforce Alliance from February 16th through February 29th and running day and night at the specially created website, http://www.alliancevirtualjobfair.com/

Kathryn Schmidt, President and Chief Executive Officer of Workforce Alliance, said, “This is a new concept, and the 24-hour access makes it much easier for those job seekers who have classes or daytime jobs to attend.  They can register and submit a resume on the Virtual Job Fair website and their information will go straight to the right contact person at the participating companies.”

Viking Yacht Company, Florida Crystals, Zachry Construction and ESPN760 Radio are the principal co-sponsors of the event and will be accepting applications and resumes at their “virtual job fair booths” during the two-week period of the fair.

Other employers having a “virtual booth” include Aspen Air Conditioning, Chevron, Boca Raton Resort, Children’s Services Council, Dale Carnegie Training, Express Personnel, Florida Turbine Technologies, General Dynamics, Home Services, IBM Southeast Employees Federal Credit Union, Ion Media, Lou Bachrodt Automotive Group, Palms West Hospital, Prudential, The Scripps Research Institite, US Home Systems and Wellington Regional Medical Center.

The special website, http://www.alliancevirtualjobfair.com/ , can be accessed after the kick-off of the Virtual Job Fair at 12 noon, February 16th and remains open through 11:59 p.m., February 29th.

Job seekers who do not have ready access to a personal computer to attend the Virtual Job Fair are welcome to visit one of the three Workforce Alliance Career Centers for use of a computer at no cost.  They are located in Boynton Beach, Belle Glade and West Palm Beach and, besides computers, have printers, faxes and phones for the use of job seekers.

Workforce Alliance is the organization chartered by the State of Florida to operate workforce development programs in Palm Beach County that respond to the needs of both businesses and job seekers.  The Virtual Job Fair is expected to attract a large number of job seekers from throughout the County as well as others from across the State of Florida and from out-of-state via the internet.