More than 1,500 job seekers offered their resumés and a firm handshake to tourism operators in Charlottetown on Saturday.
But some prospective employers said personality is the key to making a good first impression in their businesses.
“Fundamentally, we hire on people first, your energy, do you have any experience working with folks, do you have great integrity, do you respect yourself and others, those are really the core values that we can work with,” said Kim Doyle, CEO of Resonate XM.
Doyle was hoping to find a “rockstar” who could work as an event co-ordinator.
She and the 45 other employers had plenty of candidates at the Delta Hotel on Saturday for the annual tourism Industry Association of P.E.I. job fair. The number of people looking for work far outpaced the 600 or so people who attended each of the past few years.
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