With these career fairs HR can fill the pool with qualified applicants and avoid the 300 hour wonders they were stuck with last year.
No offense to 300 hour pilots. We've all been there, we just didn't get to fly a jet full of people in every weather situation to airports big and small. While some people will tell you the military does it, I trained those guys and had nothing to teach them after 5 hours. The military finds the best prospects and goes from there. Civilians find the highest bidder.
I'm civilian from the ground up, never flew military. Either you're good pilot from the start or you're not. I firmly believe there is something to be gained by flying a single engine prop in and out of a pattern. When I commuted and a 300 hour guy was landing the crosswind technique just wasn't there. People crash into the ground, not the sky and crosswind technique isn't taught in a sim or a book.