Candidate capture for recruiters: Career fairs are back in person. Make your follow-up personal too.
Your recruiters meet candidates at career fairs, campus visits and networking evenings. Covve scans their LinkedIn QR codes and business cards in seconds. A quick Voice Note records why each person stood out, and the contact reaches your CRM the same evening. Your first message can be quick and personal.
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The career fair is back. So is the crowd.
Your table is one of many. The recruiter who follows up first, and personally, gets the reply.
93.9%
of career centers planned in-person career fairs for 2024–25
109
organizations at the median in-person career fair
58.8%
of employers joined virtual fairs in 2024, down from 94.2% in 2021
Three places a good candidate slips away
Wherever you meet them, the contact should be in your CRM before you go home.
Four hours, one queue
Many candidates don’t carry business cards, but they all have LinkedIn on their phone. Scan their LinkedIn QR code, say what stood out and move on to the next person. Your note is saved on the contact straight away.
A promise you keep
Someone mentions they are open to a move. Scan their card or LinkedIn QR code, add a Voice Note and set an availability Custom Field. Now you have a follow-up with a date, not a vague “keep in touch”.
Everyone records the same details
Invite your recruiters to the Team workspace. Every contact has the same Custom Fields, so you can compare a candidate met in Lisbon with one met in Leeds.
Remember why they stood out
By the third hour, forty candidates start to blur. A short Voice Note helps you remember each one.
Voice Capture: say what you noticed, in your language, and Covve saves it as a note on the contact.
Custom Fields: record role, availability and where you met, in a few taps.
Factual by design: keep notes to skills, interests and next steps.
Before, during and after the fair
Before: set up with us
During: live tracking
After: see which fairs delivered
Next fair: do it better
Candidate data is personal data. Treat it that way.
What you collect at a career fair is your responsibility. Covve is built to make that easier.
GDPR-ready privacy
ISO 27001, GDPR and CyberVadis Platinum. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and Covve is built and based in Europe.
Notes you can stand behind
Keep notes factual: role, skills, availability and next step. Leave out anything sensitive. Hiring decisions stay with your people.
Personal follow-up, not mass mail
Covve is built for one-to-one follow-up. Scanning a card is not consent to marketing, so say how you will use their details and give people an easy way to opt out.
What networkers say
Five stars on the App Store and verified reviews on G2.
This app has been amazing for networking!! My career almost fully revolves around networking, so having an app like this makes it so much easier!!
I love using Covve as it is my go-to mobile card scanning application during networking events, trade shows, and client meetings. It digitizes contact info quickly, saves it to my phone, and syncs with other tools.
This app has truly transformed the way I network for my career. The incredible features the app has to offer takes the stress off of myself to remember to network and build connections.
Quick scanning, easy to share the contacts, and good reading of cards. Covve lets me keep records of everyone I meet without holding on to physical visiting cards.
If you want to build and maintain relationships with the important people in your work and personal life and you need a little help keeping track of it all (and a gentle reminder now and then), then Covve is a great solution.
Covve lets me capture leads quickly at conferences and take notes on each one, and the way it recognizes contacts on my phone works really well.
What recruiting leaders ask first
Rather talk to a person? Write to us and a real person replies.
Choose a plan, download the app and your 14-day free trial begins. Real people help you connect your CRM, set up Custom Fields and invite the team before your next fair.
LinkedIn QR codes, business cards and other QR codes. Cards are read in 60+ languages, and Covve Pro also scans any event badge. If there is nothing to scan, use Voice Capture: say their details and Covve creates the contact.
Yes. Ask them to open their QR code in the LinkedIn app, scan it with Covve and they are saved as a contact. Add a Voice Note and your Custom Fields before the next person steps up.
Covve is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant and rated CyberVadis Platinum, and your data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Candidate details are personal data, so keep notes factual and tell people how you will use their details. Scanning a card is not consent to marketing.
No. Covve captures contact details and your own notes. It does not screen, score or rank anyone, and hiring decisions stay with your team.
Covve connects to Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Pipedrive and Microsoft Dynamics 365 (an add-on on Pro, included in Enterprise). Google Contacts and Outlook connect directly, and Zapier connects 8,000+ other tools. Check whether your ATS is on Zapier, or ask us.
Invite everyone to the Team workspace and share the same Custom Fields. You pay per seat, so you can add recruiters when fairs get busy. Enterprise includes a guided rollout with setup, onboarding and training.
Keep scanning. Covve works offline and warns you when the signal is weak. Everything syncs when you are back online.
The web-based Covve Portal tracks contacts by event and by recruiter in real time. Compare fairs and decide where to book next year.
Be the recruiter who writes back first.
Start free for 14 days. We help you prepare, you see contacts come in live, and the results help you choose your next fair.