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

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Editor's note (November 14, 2026): All five events in this guide have passed. For upcoming Colorado Springs hiring events, see our latest job fairs coverage. Editor's note (October 7, 2026): Correction: an earlier version gave 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. for the October 20 engineering and clearance fair; the organizer lists 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. The details below are updated.

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. Five events between late September and mid-November have survived a check against the organizers' own calendars. One was an apprenticeship expo in Fountain built for people who want a paid trade instead of a tuition bill. One was the workforce center's monthly walk-in fair on Garden of the Gods Road. One was a cleared engineering fair with a hard eligibility bar that turned most readers away at the door. One was Macy's holiday hiring day at Chapel Hills, open to walk-ins. And the biggest room of the season, the Community & Veterans Job Fair, was on Palmer Park Boulevard the day before Veterans Day.

Five confirmed Colorado Springs area hiring events between September 29 and November 10; all five have already taken place. Here they are in order, with the catches spelled out.

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📅 Table of Contents

Apprenticeship Career Expo — Tuesday, September 29

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

This event has passed.

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

This event has passed.

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. The center lists more than 25 employers for October, among them the Colorado Springs Police Department, School District 11, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the 50 Force Support Squadron, Microchip Technology, Discount Tire, Goodwill Staffing Services and Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 58. 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

1:00 – 4:00 p.m. | ViewHouse Colorado Springs, 7114 Campus Dr.

This event has passed.

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 at ViewHouse on the north side or talk to the same recruiters online. Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Sabel Systems are confirmed so far, with more to be announced. The catch is the entry bar, and it is a real one: cleared candidates are a priority, and the organizer requires U.S. citizenship and at least two years of industry experience. Anyone at Peterson, Schriever or the Space Force contractor cluster along Briargate Parkway already knows the drill. → See details

Macy's Holiday Hiring Day — Thursday, October 22

Hours vary by store | Macy's Chapel Hills Mall, 1750 Briargate Blvd.

This event has passed.

Macy's, Inc. runs its national holiday hiring days at every store, and its holiday hiring announcement sets this one for October 22, with a final round on Thursday, November 19. Chapel Hills is the only Macy's in the city, and walk-ins are welcome for seasonal store jobs. Colorado isn't among the company's named top hiring markets and no local headcount has been announced, so treat it as steady seasonal hiring, not a mass recruitment. Apply first at macysJOBS, then call the store at (719) 593-3333 for hours. → See details

Community & Veterans Job Fair — Tuesday, November 10

10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Colorado Springs Event Center, 3960 Palmer Park Blvd.

This event has passed.

The Pikes Peak Workforce Center posted 114 employers for the biggest room of the fall, the day before Veterans Day. It was pitched at people transitioning out of active duty, veterans and military spouses, but the organizer said everyone was welcome, civilians included. The list ran from USAA, UCHealth, CommonSpirit Health, Colorado Springs Utilities, The Home Depot, Walgreens, USPS, Werner Enterprises and XPO to public safety and federal recruiters, including the Colorado Springs Police Department, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, Colorado State Patrol, the FBI's Denver office, the U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Defense and tech employers such as Kratos Defense, Microchip Technology and Quantum Research International were on it, and so were union apprenticeship programs: the Colorado Springs Electrical JATC, the Sheet Metal Industry JATC and Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 58. → See details

⚠️ Who the October 20 Fair Was NOT For

The organizer's stated requirements were U.S. citizenship, a degree, and a minimum of two years of related industry experience. That ruled 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, a broad multi-employer room like the November 10 fair on Palmer Park Boulevard was the better fit, and the job links below are open every day.

🔎 How to Pick the Right One

  • Under 25, no degree, want a trade: the September 29 apprenticeship expo, the October 7 walk-in fair and the November 10 fair, which had the electrical, sheet metal and pipefitter apprenticeship programs at their own tables, have all passed. The apprentice and electrician job links below are open every day.
  • Need a paycheck in the next month: every fair on this list has passed, so start with the warehouse, customer service and part-time job links below.
  • Veterans and military spouses: the November 10 Community & Veterans Job Fair has passed. Call the Pikes Peak Workforce Center at 719-667-3700 about its next event.
  • Experienced engineers with a clearance: the October 20 fair at ViewHouse and the November 10 fair have both passed, and the security clearance and cyber security job links below are open every day.
  • Public safety and federal careers: the November 10 fair, with police, sheriff, state patrol and federal law enforcement recruiters, has passed.

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 registered apprenticeship programs like the ones at the September 29 expo are built around wage progressions that climb as hours and credentials accumulate.

🔎 Where to Aim This Fall

Five 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?

Pikes Peak Workforce Center First Wednesday hiring events are free to job seekers. No admission price was posted for the November 10 Community & Veterans Job Fair.

Do I need to register in advance?

Not for the workforce center's First Wednesday fairs — walk-ins are welcome. For the November 10 fair, the workforce center used a job seeker registration link on its event page and asked people to create or update their ConnectingColorado account beforehand, and having one ready speeds check-in at any workforce center event.

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 five 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 of them?

All five have now passed. The First Wednesday series has run monthly, so call 719-667-3700 to ask about the next date. In the meantime, the fastest path is a saved search and an alert, not a calendar.

Don't Wait for the Next Ballroom

A handful of fairs across two months 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.

Related Reading

Every room in this guide, from Trojan Arena in Fountain to the Colorado Springs Event Center on Palmer Park Boulevard, has now closed. Until the next fair is posted, the job links above are the fastest way into the Springs' hiring.

Updated October 31, 2026: the Pikes Peak Workforce Center has posted 114 employers for the Nov. 10 Community & Veterans Job Fair, and the highlights are in the guide. Updated October 15, 2026: added Macy's holiday hiring day on Oct. 22 at Chapel Hills Mall. Updated October 7, 2026: the Oct. 20 engineering and clearance fair is at ViewHouse, 7114 Campus Dr., with Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Sabel Systems recruiting; the Oct. 7 employer list is now in the guide. Updated September 30, 2026: added the Community & Veterans Job Fair on Nov. 10 at the Colorado Springs Event Center.

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