Exhausted all your usual methods of recruitment? Here are some alternative ways for your company to find skilled talent in Scotland, across the UK and overseas.
Alternative places to recruit
A list of sites that will help you find the talent you need:
The Scottish Black Talent Summit and Hiring Fair helps Scotland's untapped talent pool connect with talent acquisition heads, HR professionals and government. The event is focused on finding good ways to hire and keep new, diverse talent.
Data Talent provides an opportunity for recruiting companies to engage with Scotland’s emerging data talent. The event includes speakers who demonstrate their innovative data science projects and provide an insight into careers with them, plus skills workshops, panel discussions and the opportunity for students and those looking to progress their career in data science and AI to talk to prospective employers and find out more about them.
London Tech Week is a global gathering of tech that unites the most innovative thinkers and talent of tomorrow. Showcasing how tech is transforming both business and society, London Tech Week drives conversations around transformation, diversity and innovation. It gives the tech ecosystem a platform to come together with decision makers, industry leaders, striving entrepreneurs and influencers to create change.
Silicon Milkroundabout is a two-day hiring event, where you can chat face to face with thousands of qualified, pre-screened jobseekers. The organisers believe in quality over quantity, so tickets are based on relevance and every single application is vetted to make sure they're a match for the roles that you're hiring for.
LEVEL UP by Turing Fest is an exciting career event packed with expert talks, interactive roundtables, speed networking, and a space to connect with some of Scotland’s top talent. Not to mention free coffee and a happy hour!
Taking place throughout the year across Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, these career fairs can help showcase your company and find new talent.
BCF Career Events are the largest career events for the life sciences. They're a meeting place for everyone who is or wants to be active in the bio or life sciences, chemistry, food or pharma. BCF Career Events offer you the opportunity to get in direct contact with a broad range of talented individuals in the sector.
Cybertech is the cyber industry’s foremost networking platform, holding industry-related conferences and exhibitions all around the globe.
Cybertech events feature C-level executives, top-ranking government officials, leading decision-makers and other top speakers from a wide range of sectors, including critical infrastructure, finance, health, defense, insurance, manufacturing and automotive.
From multinational corporations, startups, private and corporate investors, to venture capital firms, experts, and clients – you can meet all the key players from the cyber industry and be immersed in everything there is to offer.
Cybertech is the cyber industry’s foremost networking platform, holding industry-related conferences and exhibitions all around the globe.
Cybertech events feature C-level executives, top-ranking government officials, leading decision-makers and other top speakers from a wide range of sectors, including critical infrastructure, finance, health, defense, insurance, manufacturing and automotive.
From multinational corporations, startups, private and corporate investors, to venture capital firms, experts, and clients – you can meet all the key players from the cyber industry and be immersed in everything there is to offer.
The All Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Career Fair is the premier event for recruiters and top talent to connect and discuss career opportunities associated with sustainability.
Each year, the eight Ivy League schools come together to produce a unique and inspiring career fair that provides companies with unparalleled access to undergraduate, graduate and PhD level students who have the skills and knowledge to address the complex sustainability challenges of our global economy.
MIT have have merged TechX's TechFair and TBP's Career Fair to present xFair – an interactive career fair with a focus on company demos and MIT student projects.
Throughout the academic year, MIT hosts and collaborates on more than a dozen career fairs and large recruiting events. These career fairs are designed to provide a wide range of opportunities for students to connect with different industries, explore careers, and apply to internships, jobs and research opportunities.
The MIT Analytics Career Fair is an event that helps expose the MIT community to graduate opportunities in data science and business analytics. Each year companies of all sizes, from all industries come to the MIT Media Lab to showcase their analytics excellence and recruit analytics talent.
WIT’s job fairs pair employers in the Washington, D.C. area with qualified job applicants, including technology professionals of all levels and skilled business candidates interested in the tech sector. There are also virtual sessions available.
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