About us

DANIEL LEVESQUE, PRESIDENT

Daniel Levesque is president, founder and owner of The National Job Fair & Training Expo Inc. Founded in 2002, the fair quickly became Canada's largest recruitment event for the general public and Ontario'"s leading edge event in the recruitment marketplace. At every single event, The National Job Fair & Training Expo welcomes over 150 exhibitors, more than 700 recruiters, career specialists, HR professionals and admission officers, as well as 9,000 to 11,000 attendees and more than 8,000 job and career opportunities on-site.

In 2001, Mr. Levesque got a great idea: First, to create the largest multi-sector job and career fair in Canada right here in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada’s undisputed business and work capital, a public show of mutual interest that would bring together local, provincial, national and international organizations of all types to stimulate employment in a dynamic and proactive environment for a vibrant audience of highly motivated and skilled candidates; and, second, to extend the savoir faire of his company to other cities. He builds his succesfull exhibition on three key words: synergy, opportunity and network.

In 2005, he acquired The Training Career Fair of Montreal and The Education Fair of Montreal, two fairs held simultaneously every year in October since 1996, making his company Canada's #1 organization specializing in recruitment events with over 400 exhibitors and 40,000 visitors early in Toronto and Montreal.

Mr. Levesque has 20 years' experience in public shows, special events and event marketing and communications. Prior to focusing on the development of The National Job Fair & Training Expo, he was a consultant in marketing communications and public relations from 1992 to 2002 and a reporter for Le Journal dde Montréal from 1994 to 2006.

He was responsible for the strategic planning, logistics and/or communications for some 100 local, national and international events, launches and/or public activities, such as two International Money Laundering conferences organized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in 1998 and 2001, the Doping in Sports Among Youth in Canada Conference organized by the World Forum on Physical Activity and Sport in 2001, the 1997 Bluenose II Canada Tour organized by the Bluenose II Preservation Trust and the launching of over 20 commemorative stamps for Canada Post Corporation between 1996 and 1999.

Between 1990 and 1998, Mr. Levesque published four books on fitness. His latest book, The Weider Weight Training Log (self published), has been distributed in Canada, United States and Great Britain. A former racewalker, he was on the Canadian Track and Field Team from 1983 to 1991, and he coached a Canadian racewalking athlete participating in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.

He speaks English, French and a little Spanish. A passionate of the Roman Empire and Classical Antiquity, he also enjoys history of the Medieval, Renaissance and Classical castles of France, Europe, the regions of the Mediteranean, Adriatic and Aegean seas, cinema, music, photography, architecture and landscaping.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Laval University.