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

Published: September 2, 2026 | By LocalJobPage Team

SACRAMENTO, CA — This is the month Blue Diamond Growers finishes switching off the lights at 1802 C Street. The almond cooperative's flagship Midtown plant, roughly 600 jobs across 50 acres, has been closing in phases since last September, and phase three lands now. Across town at Metro Air Park, Peak Energy is building what it says will be America's first sodium-ion grid storage factory, 239 local jobs over the next 18 months, with production starting in early 2027. One of those stories is ending this month. The other has not started hiring in volume yet. In between sits a fall hiring calendar that is thinner than this region deserves.

Four public hiring events between September 11 and November 5, plus two campus fairs. Here they are in order.

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📅 Table of Contents

September 11 — Workforce Development Symposium Job Fair
September 17 — Sacramento Job Fair at Cal Expo
October 14 — I AM ABLE Disability Job Fair
November 5 — SacJobs Fall Career Fair

Workforce Development Symposium Job Fair — Friday, September 11

2:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Midtown Church, 2225 19th Street, Sacramento, CA 95818

Read the time on this one carefully, because getting it wrong wastes your whole day. The Health Education Council runs a workforce symposium at this address starting at 8:00 in the morning, and that morning block is built for executives, agency staff and nonprofit leaders. The part that is for you is the job fair from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. Caltrans, CalFire and other state agencies are recruiting, and there are workshops on resume writing, the state employment application process, and job support for people with disabilities. State hiring runs on its own paperwork and its own vocabulary, so an afternoon spent with people who read those applications for a living is worth more than a week of guessing. Show up at 2:30, not at 8:00.

Sacramento Job Fair at Cal Expo — Thursday, September 17

11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Holiday Inn Express & Suites Sacramento NE Cal Expo, 2224 Auburn Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95821

Free for job seekers, open to anyone, and the employer list leans unusually heavily toward public agencies: Alta California Regional Center, Sacramento County Probation, the Sacramento County Department of Personnel Services, the California Employment Development Department, the California Department of Industrial Relations, Alameda County Sheriff's Office and Stockton Police Department, alongside H&R Block and California Miramar University. If you have been circling government work but bouncing off the online application portals, this is a room full of the people on the other side of those portals. Register free with the organizer.

I AM ABLE Disability Job Fair — Wednesday, October 14

11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | SAFE Credit Union Convention Center, Hall A, 1400 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

The best-aimed room in Sacramento all year. PRIDE Industries runs this during National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and the 2025 edition drew more than 1,100 job seekers to meet 40-plus employers who came specifically to hire people with disabilities. Free for job seekers. Caregivers, family members and agency partners are welcome, which matters if you want someone with you. One practical note straight from the organizer: the early time slots have already filled, and availability is now in the noon to 2:00 p.m. window, so register rather than assuming you can drift in at 11. Registration and details from PRIDE Industries, or call 916-753-4339.

SacJobs Fall Career Fair — Thursday, November 5

11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H Street, Sacramento, CA 95819

Four hours, free admission, free parking, all ages welcome, out on H Street in East Sacramento. This is the general-audience fair on the fall calendar, the one to hold in reserve if September comes and goes without an offer. The organizer has not published an employer roster yet, so we are not going to invent one. Registration is free through the organizer's event page, and questions go to 916-455-6677.

🎓 Students and Grads

Two campus fairs sit inside this window. Neither is open to the general public, so check yourself against the door policy before you drive.

Sac State College of Business Fall Career Fair — Tuesday, September 29, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., Carlsen Center, Sacramento State Library Room 1520, 6000 Jed Smith Drive. Business students, registration through Handshake.
UC Davis Fall Career Fair — Wednesday, October 14, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., University Credit Union Center, UC Davis. Open to UC Davis students, alumni and postdocs. The alumni line is the one worth noticing: if you graduated from Davis five years ago and are quietly looking, you can still walk in.

🔎 How to Pick the Right Ones

Four public events across eight weeks is not a lot. Sort yourself quickly and go to the right one rather than all of them.

Anyone aiming at state or county government: September 11 for the application workshops, September 17 for the hiring agencies themselves. Those two together are a complete run at public-sector work.
Job seekers with disabilities: October 14, and register early. Nothing else in the region is built this deliberately.
Laid off from Blue Diamond or another manufacturer: September 17 first, because probation, personnel services and the regional center all hire for steady schedules and benefits. Then November 5 as your second swing.
Still searching in November: the SacJobs fair on the 5th, and use the ten weeks before it rather than waiting for it.
Current students: your campus fair, and then one of the public events anyway. Campus recruiting and local hiring are two different job markets.

💵 What the Floor Actually Is Here

California's minimum wage is $16.90 an hour as of January 1, 2026, for every employer regardless of size. Here is the part Sacramento job seekers get wrong: there is no separate City of Sacramento minimum wage. Not in the city, not in West Sacramento, Davis, Woodland, Elk Grove, Roseville, Rancho Cordova, Folsom or Citrus Heights. Sacramento's old city ordinance was written to sunset once the state rate caught up, and it did. The state figure is the floor across the whole metro.

Two carve-outs pay more. Limited-service restaurants that are part of national chains of 60 or more locations sit at $20.00 an hour under the state's fast food standard. And covered health care workers went up on July 1, 2026, on a tiered schedule that runs from $19.28 to $25.00 depending on the type and size of the facility, with the largest systems at the top of that range.

The rule that decides which number applies to you is the same everywhere in California: the address where you physically do the work sets your floor, not where you live and not where the company is headquartered. For most Sacramento-area workers that is simple, because the whole region sits at the state rate. It matters in the other direction, though. If you live in Elk Grove but do field or on-site work in a Bay Area city with its own ordinance, you are owed that city's higher rate for the hours you worked there.

What to Bring to Any of Them

Printed resumes, more than you think you need
Photo ID, and a student ID for the campus fairs
Licenses, certifications and DMV record details if your field requires them
Your last three employers with dates, written down, because state applications ask and memory fails at a folding table
A short self-introduction you have actually said out loud
A notebook, so you can write down names and follow up within 48 hours

What It Means for Job Seekers

The Sacramento labor market is doing two things at once, and the sector numbers say it plainly. Over the twelve months through June 2026, education and health services grew 4.0 percent in this metro while construction fell 4.5 percent and information fell 6.7 percent. Government, in the state capital, was down 0.8 percent. Sacramento County unemployment sat at 5.1 percent in July, matching the statewide rate. Translated: health care is hiring, the trades and tech are not, and the public payroll that this region has always leaned on is no longer the automatic answer. If you are coming out of manufacturing or construction, the fastest bridge is a credential that moves you toward health care, logistics or facilities work, and the fall events above are where those employers actually are.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Are Sacramento job fairs free?

The September 17, October 14 and November 5 events are free for job seekers, and the November fair has free parking. The September 11 job fair does not publish an admission price, so confirm with the organizer before you go.

Which fall job fair has the most employers?

The I AM ABLE Disability Job Fair on October 14 is the largest on this list, with more than 40 employers and over 1,100 job seekers at the 2025 edition.

Do I have to be a student to attend?

Not for the four public events. The Sac State fair on September 29 is for business students and the UC Davis fair on October 14 is for UC Davis students, alumni and postdocs.

Does Sacramento have its own minimum wage?

No. The City of Sacramento has no separate minimum wage ordinance, and neither do the surrounding cities. California's $16.90 state rate is the floor across the metro, with higher rates for covered fast food and health care work.

What should I wear?

Business casual is the safe default at every event on this list. If you are aiming at a law enforcement or probation table, go one notch dressier.

Will more events be added?

Very likely. Sacramento's public workforce calendars post single-employer recruitments on two to four weeks of notice, and employers announce walk-in events with even less. We update this guide as new dates are confirmed.

Don't Rely on Showing Up

Four events across eight weeks is not a job search. Create a free LocalJobPage account and set alerts so new Sacramento openings reach you between fairs. Then browse the Sacramento Career Center for role-by-role guides.

Employers: a table at a fair reaches the people who showed up that day. Post your openings on LocalJobPage and reach Sacramento job seekers every day of the season.