What Career Fair+ does

Career Fair Plus (operated by Career Soft, LLC) is a private SaaS company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Orlando, Florida, that provides a unified recruiting event management platform for universities and Fortune 500 employers. The platform supports in-person, virtual, and hybrid career fairs, and offers appointment scheduling, interactive wayfinding maps, QR-based event and booth check-in, digital resume drop, and post-event analytics. Native video conferencing is delivered through a Whereby integration branded as CF+ Video Rooms, with optional Bring-Your-Own-Video support for Zoom and Microsoft Teams.

The platform is cloud-native and mobile-first, built on Google Firebase and AWS infrastructure with MongoDB for data storage and Stripe for billing, and distributed via web, iOS, and Android applications. Career Fair Plus employs 11-50 people and serves hundreds of universities (including Stanford, Georgia Tech, Purdue, University of Michigan, Syracuse, and others) along with enterprise employer recruiting teams. No external funding rounds, institutional investors, or M&A activity are disclosed.

The company operates a subscription-based revenue model with opaque, quote-based enterprise pricing sold through a direct sales motion (demo-driven) and an event-driven GTM aligned to academic recruiting calendars. Marketing channels include content, email, social media, biweekly recruiter webinars, and case studies. The company pursues WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility conformance to support sales into public universities.

Name

Career Fair+

Legal name

Career Soft, LLC

Website

https://careerfairplus.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Career Fair Plus is a SaaS platform that manages in-person, virtual, and hybrid career fairs for universities and Fortune 500 employers, offering appointment scheduling, interactive maps, analytics, and native video rooms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recruiting Event Management Software

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920), Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Conference & Trade Show Registration Platforms (THAHAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Ticketing, Registration & Event Technology (Badging, Apps) (BPAFAGAL), Virtual & Hybrid Event Registration & Streaming Access Platforms (THAHAFAM), Virtual Event Registration, Ticketing & Access Control (Authentication, Paywalls, Badging) (THAHAOAI)

Keywords

• Career fair software
• Recruiting event platform
• Virtual career fairs
• Campus recruiting software
• Event management platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Orlando

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscription: Subscription-based SaaS model for access to the Career Fair Plus event management platform. Universities and employers pay recurring fees to use the platform for their career fair and recruiting events.
2. Training and Support Services: Free live and recorded training, documentation, and responsive support included with platform. Additional professional services may be offered for implementation and customization.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Career Fair Plus sells a subscription-based SaaS platform that helps universities and employers run in-person, virtual, and hybrid recruiting events. The platform unifies appointment scheduling, interactive floor maps, QR code check-in, digital resume drop, native video rooms, and post-event analytics into a single event management operating system.

Product overview

Career Fair Plus is a unified recruiting event management platform that provides a comprehensive suite of tools for organizing in-person, virtual, and hybrid career fairs. The core platform includes appointment scheduling for pre-booking meetings, interactive maps with wayfinding capabilities, event analytics with exportable ROI reports, event and booth check-in via QR codes, and digital resume drop functionality. For virtual events, the platform integrates Whereby video conferencing for 1-on-1 meetings, group sessions, and breakout groups. The platform is accessible via mobile apps for iOS and Android and a web portal, serving event organizers, recruiters, and candidates across hundreds of universities and Fortune 500 companies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Career Fair Plus Platform Core recruiting event management SaaS platform connecting event organizers, recruiters, and candidates. Provides appointment scheduling, interactive maps, event analytics, QR code check-in, resume drop, and native video rooms across in-person, virtual, and hybrid event formats. Sold via subscription to universities and Fortune 500 employers.
• Virtual Career Fairs Structured virtual recruiting event offering powered by the Career Fair Plus platform, including employer research tools, pre-booked meetings, CF+ Video Rooms for 1:1 and group sessions, and post-event analytics for universities and employers.
• In-Person Career Fairs On-site recruiting event offering with interactive floor maps, QR code check-in, digital resume drop, and real-time analytics for managing in-person career fairs at universities and employer campuses.
• Hybrid Events Combined in-person and virtual recruiting event offering managed from a single dashboard with unified analytics across both formats, supporting three hybrid deployment models for universities and employers.
• Career Fair Plus Mobile App (iOS and Android) Native mobile application for iOS and Android providing candidates and recruiters with access to interactive maps, meeting booking, QR code check-in, and video meetings for career fairs.

Quantifiable outcome

• 82% meetings filled rate (shown on analytics dashboard)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core infrastructure, core feature and customer support.

• Google Firebase / Google Cloudcore infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationGoogle Firebase provides authentication, Firestore database, cloud functions, and cloud storage services. Career Fair Plus data is stored in Google Cloud's us-east1 and us-east4 regions. Firebase is fundamental to the application's data management and authentication architecture.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)core infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationAWS provides cloud infrastructure and data storage services. Career Fair Plus uses AWS S3 for data storage, CloudFront CDN for content delivery (cdn.careerfairplus.com), and data centers in us-east-1 and us-east-2 regions. Core platform navigation depends on AWS S3 services.
• Wherebycore featureTechnology or IntegrationWhereby provides the integrated video meeting platform for Career Fair Plus's native CF+ Video Rooms feature. Used for 1:1 and group meetings in virtual career fairs. Supports video, audio, screen sharing, virtual backgrounds, and breakout groups. Whereby is based on WebRTC technology.
• MongoDBcore infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationMongoDB provides database services as part of Career Fair Plus's technology stack for storing and managing event data.
• Stripecore infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationStripe provides payment processing services for the platform's subscription and billing operations.
• Intercomcustomer supportTechnology or IntegrationIntercom provides customer support and communication tools, powering the help center and customer service chat functionality on the Career Fair Plus platform.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• 6Connex: 6Connex offers virtual and hybrid event platforms with attendee registration, exhibitor booths, and analytics, serving recruiting events, trade shows, and corporate events — overlapping directly with CFP's hybrid recruiting use case.
• vFairs: vFairs provides virtual, in-person, and hybrid event platforms with registration, networking, and exhibitor management — most directly competing with Career Fair Plus in the virtual career fair and recruitment event space.
• Symplicity: Symplicity provides career services management software for universities, including career fair management, employer recruiting, and student employment — directly competing for the same university career services customers as CFP.
• Brazen: Brazen is a virtual career fair and recruiting event platform with chat-based group sessions, 1:1 video meetings, and employer branding — a close functional analog to CFP's video rooms and scheduling features.
• Premier Virtual: Premier Virtual is a virtual event platform specialized in career fairs, trade shows, and job fairs, with features for booth management, video meetings, and registration — a direct niche competitor to CFP's virtual fair offering.

Broad incumbents

• Cvent: Cvent is a large-scale event management platform with registration, on-site solutions, and attendee tracking, primarily serving corporate meetings and trade shows but with capability overlap for recruiting events and university career fairs.
• Handshake: Handshake is the dominant college recruiting platform connecting students, universities, and employers; it competes for the same campus career services budget as CFP, although it focuses more on job matching and less on event-day logistics.
• Bizzabo: Bizzabo is an established event experience platform with registration, attendee engagement, and analytics for in-person, virtual, and hybrid events; broader portfolio but overlapping in registration and event analytics for B2B/recruiting events.
• Symphony Talent (Talenteria): Symphony Talent is a talent marketing and CRM platform used by employers for candidate relationship management, including event-driven recruiting campaigns — adjacent to CFP on the employer-side recruiting workflow.

Emerging players

• Talview: Talview offers virtual hiring, assessments, and remote interview platforms, with virtual career fair capabilities that overlap CFP's recruiting event use case, especially for university-to-employer hiring workflows.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/careerfairplus
• Facebookfacebook.com/CareerFairPlus
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/career-fair-plus

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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