Fall 2026 Portland Job Fairs & Hiring Events: Your Complete Guide
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Fall 2026 Portland Job Fairs & Hiring Events: Your Complete Guide

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PORTLAND, OR — The Rose City's fall hiring calendar is thinner than the aggregator sites want you to believe, but the events that are real are worth the trip. We checked every listing against the organizer's own calendar and threw out everything that didn't survive. What's left is five in-person hiring events from Hillsboro to downtown Portland and the suburban malls, spread from mid-September through mid-November.

Five verified Portland-area hiring events, September 15 through November 17; the PCC, PSU, Macy's and NDEAM events have already taken place, and the monthly Beaverton fair's next date is November 17. Four are open to the public. One is not, and we'll tell you which.

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📅 Table of Contents

Goodwill Job Connection Multi-Employer Job Fair — Tuesday, September 15

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Beaverton Resource Center, 13565 SW Walker Road, Beaverton

This event has passed.

This is the steadiest hiring event in the metro right now, and the one most people miss because it doesn't buy ads. Goodwill Job Connection runs it out of the Beaverton Resource Center on the third Tuesday of every month, with multiple employers in the room and both full-time and part-time openings on the table. The center hasn't published the employer roster in advance, so treat it the way you'd treat any multi-employer fair: bring more resumes than you think you need and be ready to talk to whoever is there. The September and October dates have passed, but the same fair runs again on Tuesday, November 17, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The building sits just off Walker Road near Cedar Hills Boulevard, a straightforward run from the Sunset Highway and reachable on TriMet. Details are on the Beaverton Resource Center's own event page, and the center's number is 503-207-5670 if you want to confirm the employer list before you drive out.

PCC Healthcare Professionals Career Fair — Friday, October 16

12:30 – 4:00 PM | PCC Willow Creek Opportunity Center, 241 SW Edgeway Drive, Hillsboro

This event has passed.

Portland Community College's Career Pathways program runs its fall health care recruiting day at Willow Creek, where Beaverton meets Hillsboro, and you do not need to be a PCC student to walk in: the college says its career fairs are free and open to the public. PCC has not published the employer list, so plan around meeting whoever is there rather than one specific hospital system. Bring printed resumes, a thirty-second pitch and your CNA, CMA, CPR or phlebotomy cards. The center sits on the MAX Blue Line with free parking, and the three-and-a-half-hour window means you can come straight from a morning shift. Details are on PCC's career fair page. → See details

PSU Fall Career Fair — Monday, October 19

Times posted on Handshake | Viking Pavilion, 930 SW Hall Street, Portland

This event has passed.

Portland State's biggest recruiting day of the fall lands inside Career Week, October 12 through 19, and it draws private employers, nonprofits and government agencies into the Viking Pavilion on the south end of the Park Blocks. Read the eligibility line carefully before you plan around it: PSU's career center says Career Week events are for PSU students and alumni, and employers register through Handshake. If you're a Viking, past or present, this is the highest-value day on the list. If you're not, it isn't for you, and there's no walk-up door. PSU posts the current schedule on its Career Weeks and Fairs page; the university career center is at 503-725-4613.

Macy's Holiday Hiring Day — Thursday, October 22

Times vary by store | Macy's Washington Square, 9300 SW Washington Square Rd, Tigard; Macy's Clackamas Town Center, 12100 SE 82nd Ave, Clackamas; Macy's Vancouver Mall, 8208 NE Vancouver Mall Dr, Vancouver, WA

This event has passed.

Macy's runs a national holiday hiring day at its stores on October 22, according to its 2026 holiday hiring announcement, and the Portland area gets three of them, all in the suburbs. Stores are filling part-time seasonal roles, with pay ranges listed on each posting rather than one published rate. No local headcount has been announced. Walk in, but apply online first and call your store for hours, since Macy's says times vary by location. If the 22nd doesn't work, the company's last national hiring day is Thursday, November 19. → See details

NDEAM Job Fair at Portland State — Tuesday, October 27

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Portland State University campus

This event has passed.

Portland nonprofit INCIGHT ran this one through its JobsNow program, timed to National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and it has been a fixture on the PSU campus for years. Employers came specifically to hire, and the framing was inclusive rather than screening. INCIGHT lists its other job fairs on the JobsNow events page, and its number is 971-244-0305.

⚠️ Read This Before You Drive Anywhere

Two things will save you a wasted morning this fall.

  • Campus fairs are often closed to the general public. The October 19 PSU fair was for students and alumni only, and that is the single most common mistake people make with campus fairs. The October 27 NDEAM fair on the same campus was a separate event run by INCIGHT, not a PSU student fair.
  • Ignore the national job-fair aggregators advertising Portland events. Several sites run identical "Portland job fair" listings that turn out to be online sessions with no local room attached. If an event isn't on the organizer's own calendar, it isn't an event.

💵 The Wage Line Runs Through Your Commute

Portland is one of the few metros in the country where the legal minimum changes based on which side of an invisible line the job sits on. Oregon sets three rates, and two of them apply inside Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties. Inside the Metro urban growth boundary, the floor is $16.80 an hour as of July 1, 2026. Outside the boundary, in the same three counties, it drops to the standard rate of $15.55. Those figures come from the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries.

What decides which rate you get is the address where the work is performed, not where you live and not where the company is headquartered. Beaverton sits inside the boundary; so does the Beaverton Resource Center where the monthly Goodwill fair is held. Push out past the boundary into rural Washington or Clackamas County and the same job title can legally pay a dollar and a quarter less. Worth knowing before you accept something forty minutes out.

One caution: the floor is a floor, not a going rate. In warehousing, logistics and food service, competition around Portland pushes real starting pay above the legal minimum most of the time. Ask what the job actually pays rather than assuming the minimum is the offer.

🔎 How to Pick the Right One

  • You want a walk-in multi-employer fair: November 17 in Beaverton, the next date of Goodwill's monthly public fair.
  • You want a holiday retail job: the October 22 Macy's hiring day has passed; Macy's says its last national hiring day is Thursday, November 19, and the retail links below are open now.
  • You're job hunting with a disability, or you want employers who came to hire inclusively: the October 27 NDEAM fair has passed, so watch INCIGHT's JobsNow events page and try November 17 in Beaverton.
  • You work in health care, or want to: the October 16 PCC fair has passed, so work the caregiver and medical assistant links below.
  • You're in the eastside suburbs: none of these are close to Gresham. Work the job links below instead and check back when we update this guide.

📋 What to Bring to Any of Them

  • Ten printed resumes, one page each, with a phone number that works.
  • Photo ID and, if you have them, your Social Security card and any certifications. Some employers run same-day applications on the spot.
  • A short, honest answer to "what kind of work are you looking for." Recruiters at multi-employer fairs move fast.
  • Clothes you'd wear to the interview, not to the errand you're running afterward.
  • A note on your phone with your last two employers, dates and supervisor names. It kills the application form problem.

🔎 Where to Aim This Fall

Fairs are a handful of days out of a ninety-day season. The rest of it happens online, and Portland's steadiest fall demand is in warehousing along the Columbia corridor, health care across the big systems, and retail and food service ramping toward the holidays.

Start here:

Portland Job Fair FAQ

Do I need to register for the Beaverton job fair?

The Beaverton Resource Center's listing doesn't post a registration requirement or an admission cost for the Goodwill Job Connection fair. Community resource center events like this generally run as walk-ins, but call 503-207-5670 to confirm before you make the drive.

Can the public attend the Portland State career fairs?

The October 19 Fall Career Fair, now passed, was limited to PSU students and alumni under PSU's Career Week rules. The October 27 NDEAM fair, also passed, was a separate event run by INCIGHT that happened to be hosted on the PSU campus, not a PSU student fair.

What is the minimum wage in Portland right now?

$16.80 an hour inside the Metro urban growth boundary as of July 1, 2026, and $15.55 in the parts of Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties that fall outside it. The address where you perform the work determines the rate.

Why are there so few Portland job fairs listed this fall?

Because most of what shows up in a search isn't real. National aggregator sites republish the same fake-local listings across dozens of cities, and old listings from previous years keep ranking. We only list events that appear on the organizer's own calendar with a date we could confirm.

What should I do if none of these fit?

Work the job links above and set up a profile so employers can find you. Most Portland-area hiring never touches a job fair at all.

Will this guide be updated?

Yes. Fall event calendars turn over monthly, and Portland's especially. When new events are confirmed, or when one of these changes its date or location, we update this page rather than publishing a new one.

Get in the Room Before the Room Fills Up

Five events is a short list, which means the people who show up prepared have a real advantage. Do the fifteen minutes of setup now so November doesn't catch you flat-footed.

Create your free LocalJobPage profile so Portland-area employers can find you between fairs, and browse every open job across the metro while you wait for the next one.

Employers: if you're staffing up for the holidays and want Portland candidates in front of you before the fairs come around again, post your openings here.

Fall in this city moves fast. The rain settles in over the West Hills, the seasonal req lists go up, and by the time the leaves are down on the Park Blocks the good openings are already spoken for. Start now.

Updated October 14, 2026: added Macy's holiday hiring day on Oct. 22 at Washington Square, Clackamas Town Center and Vancouver Mall. Updated October 3, 2026: added the free PCC Healthcare Professionals Career Fair on Oct. 16 at Willow Creek in Hillsboro.

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