Imaste

Imaste is a Spanish company, and is a European provider of virtual events, 3D online environments and virtual tradeshows that, connect, inform, and engage both visitors and exhibitors.

History

Imaste was founded in 2003 with the purpose of bridging the gap between university students and companies in Spain. As a result they started organizing live job fairs and within two years their Tour de Empleo had become Spain's leading university recruitment event. The fair itself is an annual event that occurs on over 15 Spanish Universities. As technologies began to emerge they began to leverage these online tools to create a virtual component to complete their live events. Naturally, they expanded this to add strictly online virtual events to their repertoire. Now, in 2009 they have powered over 50 virtual events across Spain, Europe, and the World. They have worked with the likes of MonsterUK, Curriculum.br, and Deloitte.

Products

Virtual Fairs

A virtual tradeshow, which could be a career fair or an industry tradeshow. They provide realistic graphics, 3Dtransitions, one-on-one chatting, video presentations (webinar), and booths where you can drop your resume, stream videos, chat with representatives, and take a "compatibility" test.

An example of this success can be found in their recent presentation of Monster E-days High Tech, an online Virtual Career Fair for Monster France. Despite the obstacle of having to create a virtual fair for a foreign language, the fair was a huge success posting 35 participating companies, 100,000 unique visitors, and 8,000 C.V.'s collected.

Virtual Environment Lab

Imaste uses Adobe Flex to build rich internet applications that represent a company's office and information centre, online. Examples of clients for whom they have built such environments are: the corporate office of Deloitte, the virtual campus for Everis, a virtual music festival for Universitaria, and a virtual petrol station for PETRA.

On-Campus live Job Fairs

Their original product, the Tour de Empleo, was created to help facilitate the ability of top companies to find top candidates. Previously there was no Career Fair network, but instead a series of independently run Career Fairs, making it hard for companies to attend them all. The Tour de Empleo eliminated this problem, and was the first to do so. In 2008 alone, over 500 firms were represented in over 750,000 booths which were visited by over 100,000 students in 10 fairs across Spain. It is a true testament to the importance of these fairs, and the quality of the company.