Fall 2026 Colorado Springs Job Fairs & Hiring Events: Your Complete Guide

Published: September 13, 2026 | By LocalJobPage Team

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — The fall hiring calendar in the Pikes Peak region is short this year, and that is worth knowing before you spend a Saturday refreshing job boards. Three events between now and late October have survived a check against the organizers' own calendars. One is an apprenticeship expo in Fountain built for people who want a paid trade instead of a tuition bill. One is the workforce center's monthly walk-in fair on Garden of the Gods Road. One is a cleared engineering fair with a hard eligibility bar that will turn most readers away at the door.

Three confirmed Colorado Springs area hiring events between September 29 and October 20. Here they are in order, with the catches spelled out.

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📅 Table of Contents

September 29 — Apprenticeship Career Expo, Fountain
October 7 — First Wednesday Job Fair
October 20 — Engineering, Technology & Security Clearance Career Fair

Apprenticeship Career Expo — Tuesday, September 29

9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Trojan Arena, 10725 Trojan Point, Fountain

Free, and the most useful room on this list if you want to earn while you train. Apprenticeship Colorado and the Future Ready Apprenticeship Center are bringing registered apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs together with Academy District 20, Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 and the Pikes Peak Workforce Center. The programs on the floor span construction, education, health care, hospitality and manufacturing, which means this is not only a hard-hat event — teacher apprenticeships and clinical pathways are in the mix. The Future Ready center's own funding is aimed at ages 16 to 24, so expect a young crowd, but the expo itself is pitched at anyone exploring an apprenticeship pathway. Trojan Arena sits off Link Road on the Fountain-Fort Carson High School campus, an easy run south on I-25 or Highway 85 from the Springs.

First Wednesday Job Fair — Wednesday, October 7

10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Citizens Service Center, 1675 Garden of the Gods Road

The Pikes Peak Workforce Center runs a multi-employer hiring event on the first Wednesday of the month, and October's is the one to circle. These fairs are free to job seekers, no registration, walk-ins welcome, and the employer mix leans practical: past rounds of this series have drawn the City of Colorado Springs, the Colorado Department of Corrections, Republic Services, home care and behavioral health agencies, auto dealers and casino operators from Cripple Creek. Veterans and eligible spouses get priority of service, which in plain terms means you get seen first. The center also does free resume reviews and mock interviews by appointment at 719-667-3700 — book one for the week before, not the morning of. The series continues into November on the first Wednesday, but that date has not been posted to the center's calendar yet.

Engineering, Technology & Security Clearance Career Fair — Tuesday, October 20

2:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Colorado Springs, venue not yet finalized

A hybrid fair aimed squarely at the industry that built this town: engineering of every discipline, software, systems, mechanical, electrical and cyber. You can work the room in person or talk to the same recruiters online. The catch is the entry bar, and it is a real one. Some roles require an active clearance, and a north-side venue has been floated but the organizer's own event page still lists the location as to be determined, so confirm before you drive. Anyone at Peterson, Schriever or the Space Force contractor cluster along Briargate Parkway already knows the drill.

⚠️ Who the October 20 Fair Is NOT For

The organizer's stated requirements are U.S. citizenship, a degree, and a minimum of two years of related industry experience. That rules out new graduates, career changers coming in from another field and anyone hoping to break into defense work without a track record. If that is you, September 29 in Fountain is the better use of your afternoon — an apprenticeship is exactly the on-ramp the cleared fair assumes you already took.

🔎 How to Pick the Right One

Under 25, no degree, want a trade: September 29 in Fountain. Paid training, and the school districts are in the room alongside the contractors.
Need a paycheck in the next month: October 7 at the Citizens Service Center. It is the only walk-in, open-to-everyone event on the list.
Veterans and military spouses: October 7. Priority of service is a stated policy, not a courtesy.
Experienced engineers with a clearance: October 20, and confirm the venue first.
Career changers with a degree but no defense background: October 7 for immediate work, September 29 for a pathway. October 20 will not take you.

What to Bring to Any of Them

Printed resumes, more than you think you need
Photo ID
Certification and license numbers if you hold any
Your clearance level and adjudication date, if you have one
A ConnectingColorado account set up in advance, which speeds check-in at workforce center events
Availability you can state out loud without checking your phone
A notebook, so you can follow up by name within 48 hours

💵 What the Floor Actually Is Here

Colorado's statewide minimum wage is $15.16 an hour in 2026, and $12.14 for tipped employees where the tip credit applies. Denver, Edgewater, Boulder and Boulder County have adopted higher local rates. Colorado Springs, Fountain and El Paso County have not, so the state number is the floor across this metro, and the address where the work is performed is what decides it — not where you live and not where the company is headquartered.

Treat that as a legal floor, not a going rate. In the Springs, competition for warehouse, skilled trades, clinical and cleared technical work pushes real starting pay well above it, and the apprenticeship programs at the September 29 expo are built around wage progressions that climb as hours and credentials accumulate.

🔎 Where to Aim This Fall

Three events is a thin calendar, and the honest advice is that showing up is one channel, not the whole search. Fort Carson, the Space Force installations, UCHealth Memorial, Children's Hospital Colorado, School District 11 and Colorado Springs Utilities all hire steadily through the fall without ever renting a ballroom.

Start here:

Frequently Asked Questions

Are Colorado Springs job fairs free?

The Apprenticeship Career Expo on September 29 is listed as free, and Pikes Peak Workforce Center hiring events are free to job seekers. Cost was not published for the October 20 fair, so ask when you register rather than assuming.

Do I need to register in advance?

Not for the workforce center's First Wednesday fair — walk-ins are welcome. The October 20 fair takes registration through its organizer. For any workforce center event, having a ConnectingColorado account ready speeds you through check-in.

Where is the Pikes Peak Workforce Center?

Inside the Citizens Service Center at 1675 Garden of the Gods Road, just west of I-25 on the north side of town. The main line is 719-667-3700.

Is there a Colorado Springs minimum wage separate from the state's?

No. El Paso County and the City of Colorado Springs have not adopted local wage ordinances, so the Colorado rate of $15.16 an hour in 2026 applies across the metro, including Fountain, Monument and Manitou Springs.

Why are there only three events on this list?

Because those are the ones we could confirm against an organizer's own calendar. Several listings circulating for Colorado Springs this fall are recycled from prior years or are national aggregator pages with no real local venue, and we leave those off. Fall fairs get announced with two or three weeks of notice, so this guide gets updated as new dates are confirmed.

What if I miss all three?

The First Wednesday series runs monthly, so November and December bring another shot at the same room. In the meantime, the fastest path is a saved search and an alert, not a calendar.

Don't Wait for the Next Ballroom

Three fairs in six weeks will not carry a job search by themselves. Create a free LocalJobPage account and set alerts so new Colorado Springs openings reach you between events, then work the full Colorado Springs job listings in the weeks the calendar is empty.

Employers: a table at a fair reaches the people who happened to be free that Tuesday. Post your openings on LocalJobPage and reach Colorado Springs job seekers every day of the season.