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ricardo villalba Over 1,000 bilingual professional candidates attend job fair in Washington DC

Over 1,000 bilingual professional candidates attended our job fair in Washington DC on May 21, where they were able to meet with almost 40 exhibitors and professional organizations. It’s always exciting to setup events in DC, given the multicultural ambiance and professional atmosphere. I was very pleased to see that a couple organizations were holding on site interviews, and some even made some hires such as Healthstream. This is our third consecutive year hosting our DC job fair, and this yea… Continue

Added by ricardo villalba on May 24, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

ricardo villalba 1,000+ Candidates visit Navy Pier in Chicago for 3rd annual bilingual professional job fair

Over 1,000 candidates attended the 3rd annual Chicago LatPro / NSHP bilingual professional job fair at Navy Pier on March 2009. Despite the cold weather, many professional bilingual candidates lined up eager to meet with potential employers including First Northern Credit Union, Boy Scouts of America, SPX Cooling Technologies, State Farm, BP, AXA Advisors, U.S. Department of State and many more. Furthermore, we had the participation of other professional organizations such as SHPE that encourage… Continue

Added by ricardo villalba on March 27, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

ricardo villalba Dallas job fair unites 900+ bilingual candidates with 43 exhibitors

“Live large. Think big,” That is the new slogan for the city of Dallas. I believe it’s a good fit for our eighth job fair of the year too, which we hosted this past October 23 at the Dallas Convention Center. With a large space to fill, we worked diligently to bring over 43 exhibitors and laid out a floor plan which would also include some private interview rooms, to fulfill the requests from both job seekers and recruiters. Employers including Aflac, Sunbelt Rentals, Prudential, The Scotts Comp… Continue

Added by ricardo villalba on October 30, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Vanessa Price The dreaded “apply online” – Leveraging face time at career fairs

We have been thrilled this year with the success thus far of the NSHP/LatPro Diversity Career Fairs. Employers and jobseekers alike have had overwhelming praise for the events and we are proud to be able to provide such a forum for the professional advancement of Hispanic professionals. With all the positive comments and experiences jobseekers have had with ou… Continue

Added by Vanessa Price on September 15, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

ricardo villalba Second New York job fair another success

There is no doubt that New York City is one of the largest melting pots for global cultures, and our New York City job fair serves as a window to view a sample of this diverse population. Over 900 multicultural candidates attended our job fair last week, eager to meet with more than 40 exhibiting companies and organizations that were anxiously waiting for the bilingual talent to appear bright and early. Based on previous events, we were expecting a large number of attendees and we knew we had a… Continue

Added by ricardo villalba on September 11, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Rob Steward Excuses are for losers!

I overheard two guys from another office in our building this morning talking about not having enough product to deliver to their clients. One asked the other, “can’t we make an excuse for each of them for why they wont get their product?” And the other replied, “We can, but it just hasn’t been done yet.”While LatPro doesn’t have the manufacturing piece of the equation to worry about like these guys, every company faces challenges that come the… Continue

Added by Rob Steward on July 10, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Vanessa Price Public relations preparation for a LatPro diversity job fair

Between my regular role in public relations for LatPro, and my special assignments such as helping with the public relations for the LatPro/NSHP diversity job fairs, my days are usually pretty busy! We have a planned two-month hiatus between the Atlanta and Washington, D.C. fairs, which gives me a little time to actually write about some of the work that I do for the events!… Continue

Added by Vanessa Price on July 8, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Rob Steward Beyond job postings and resume database access

Every job board offers the ability to post jobs, and most offer a searchable resume database. For the most part, they all claim to be “leaders” and tout traffic numbers in one way or another. LatPro, too, offers all of the above, has significant traffic, and considers itself the… Continue

Added by Rob Steward on July 3, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Rob Steward LatPro quarterly meeting — any requests?

Later this week, LatPro is going to have its quarterly meeting. Yep, it’s that time of the quarter when all the big wigs fly in and descend on Weston to set the company goals for the next quarter.

We always prepare our individual goals a few days ahead of time, so I’m putting together my list of recommendations. Then, at the actual meeting, we can spend our time in face-to-face conversation and brainstorming (which is… Continue

Added by Rob Steward on June 25, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Rob Steward Watching the competition

It’s easy to keep an eye on your own company, but doing some analysis of the competition is more challenging. However, it is an essential task that can lead to some good ideas and innovations, and keep you on your toes. I am not talking about copying but you can certainly learn some things that fit into your business model nicely.

LatPro has a few direct competitors in the Hispanic jobs and diversity job board niche. A… Continue

Added by Rob Steward on June 18, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

ricardo villalba A warm welcome in Atlanta

We recently hosted our 5th diversity job fair of the year in Atlanta last Tuesday, June 10 and if I were to describe it in one phrase it would without a doubt be “a warm welcome.” Being based in south Florida, we usually travel to the cities 2 days prior to each of our events, so we arrived in Atlanta on Sunday afternoon and immediately realized the temperature was close to 100 degrees during our entire stay. Despite the warm, sticky weather, this was not enough to melt our anxiousness to get t… Continue

Added by ricardo villalba on June 13, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Vanessa Price My first NSHP/LatPro diversity job fair

Yesterday, I had my first experience attending a NSHP/LatPro diversity job fair as part of the LatPro team. I arrived in Atlanta on Monday where I met Saini, Ricardo, Ivete, and Mike, all members of the LatPro and NSHP Diversity Job Fair task force. This was my first time meeting each of them, and we quickly said our introductions and got to work. Prior to my arrival in Atlanta, I had imagined what the experience would be li… Continue

Added by Vanessa Price on June 11, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Rob Steward Bad customer service damages business

Jesus H…. (that’s Hey! Zeus, like in Die Hard with a Vengeance (see the third one down)). What’s going on with companies today?

This past weekend, every step I took there was someone who wanted to kill some business for their company.

Friday I returned a car to Enterprise Rent-A-Car. I calculated that I’d need to put $6 in the tank to cover the 36 m… Continue

Added by Rob Steward on June 11, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Otavio Fonseca Many highly skilled Latin Americans will not work in the United States this year

About 163,000 H-1B applications were filed this year, far in excess of the 65,000 cap. The difference represents many Latin American professionals whose dreams of working in the United States will not pan out this year. One of the companies impacted by this shortsighted policy is Google. This is what Google has to say about the H-1B cap and its effect on the company: As for G… Continue

Added by Otavio Fonseca on June 8, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Vanessa Price What does bilingual mean, anyway?

By Sandra Roffo I am a bilingual professional -in fact trilingual- and if I had the face to stretch the truth I would say multilingual. I speak Spanish, my native language, English -my adopted language since I moved to the US- and if I practice I could probably get back to speaking French. I have a decent understanding of Portuguese and Italian when it comes to reading, but I can’t speak either. But this posting is about what it means to be bilingual when we are talking about jobseekers… Continue

Added by Vanessa Price on June 5, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Rob Steward What we should’ve done during that crappy conference in Chicago

A year or so ago, I flew into Chicago for a Recruiting Trade Show, which LatPro was exhibiting at for the first time. You know the drill: fly in, get to the hotel, get ready, set up the exhibit booth, and prepare to speak with hundreds of HR professionals. Except it wasn’t to be, at least the meeting people part. There appeared to be plenty of people at the conference learning sessions, but the traffic in the exhibit area was ho… Continue

Added by Rob Steward on June 5, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Rob Steward Let’s meet at SHRM Annual

For most recruiters and HR professionals, SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management, needs no introduction. SHRM offers lots of valuable learning opportunities and certifications amongst its benefits for the HR community.

But let me offer a little perspective on what exhibiting at SHRM does for LatPro and I’d guess lots of other job boards. SHRM has… Continue

Added by Rob Steward on June 3, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Vanessa Price New release about the U.S. Hispanic population

By Sandra Roffo On May 1st, 2008, the US Census Bureau released new figures related to minorities. The nation’s Hispanic population increased 1.4 million to reach 45.5 million on July 1, 2007, or 15.1 percent of the estimated total U.S. population of 301.6 million. While Hispanics remained the largest minority group, with blacks (single race or multiracial) second at 40.7 million in 2007, it seems that the Hispanic population is still more concentrated in some areas: National and state… Continue

Added by Vanessa Price on May 23, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Rob Steward The lighter side of LatPro

It takes all kinds of people. LatPro is made up of employees from all over North and South America, from every kind of background, from every sized city or rural area, from every section of the political spectrum. We have Colombians, Argentinians, Venezuelans, Guatemalans, Brazilians, Puerto Ricans and Cubans to name a few. We also have born and raised Pennsyl… Continue

Added by Rob Steward on May 21, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Rob Steward Hispanic professionals and the economy



This week at LatPro, we were thrilled to be approached by Sue Kirchhoff, a writer from USA Today. Sue was working on an article related to Hispanics and the economy, and came to us as an authority on Hispanic Americans in professional career fields. We were glad to serve as her go-to source for the professional Hispanic perspective.

While performing research for her article Slow economy hits Hispanics hard, Sue found that the current U.S. economic do… Continue

Added by Rob Steward on May 16, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

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