Toronto Startup Job Fair Volunteer

This pas Friday I volunteered for the Toronto Startup Job Fair.

Originally I saw the event on my facebook by accident. I think google kept track of what I was searching and recommended this event based on that. Anyways it looked interesting so I decided to check it out.

Unfortunately it costed $5. And me being the cheap person I am decided to volunteer instead and go to the event for free. It was a good thing I did because my experience was better because of it.

I met many other volunteers and really got to network.

Prior to the event starting I talked to a bunch of startups and had a head start. I had great chats with reps from Hurrier (a company that dispatches bike courriers to deliver food), SkyPrep (Learning management system), Textbooks4Change (social enterprise that donates books to Africa), SparkGig (a kind of airbnb for the corporate entertainment bookings).

The two most solid leads were Hurrier and SparkGig. So Hurrier I actually already knew about since I worked for them part time as a bike delivery courier while doing airbnb at the same time. It looks like they are hiring bi-lingual support staff for the office since they have been expanding their operations to Montreal and Vancouver. But I was more interested in becoming the Growth Associate who hires new courriers and trains them in the app and system. Anyways I sent Shalaka an email and am waiting to hear back from her.

SparkGig was the last booth I stopped by just as we were cleaning up. After chatting a bit with Alex and hearing him explain to me the business, I mentioned it sounds kind of like airbnb. This sparked a conversation about my current foray in airbnb. It turns out that Alex did that before in the past and he had over 20 properties. So I grabbed his info. After shooting off some emails we tentatively agreed to meet after Halloween. I am really excited to hear about what he has to say and his past experiences in this area.

Overall this was a great event and I am really glad I went out and volunteered. Airbnb has been slowing down recently and if I do find a job in the downtown core I could keep an apartment for airbnb and live in the other one.

Peace from Toronto.