In August 2011 the CBC organised a month-long series of job fairs and town-hall meetings in Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles and Miami.

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Their startup, called BrassRing, would go after the job-recruiting market by hosting career fairs, running Internet job boards and developing software for corporate personnel departments and university career-placement offices.

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The job fairs noted above are organized by municipalities but involve private and state-owned enterprises, solidifying a trend that began several years ago.

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Job fairs are a huge waste of time and energy, and the end result is the would-be applicant leaves feeling worse than they did when they got there.

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