Employers at recruitment fairs may bring many types of job opportunity to market - general jobs they wish to fill or specific jobs. Recruitment fairs may be engineering or IT or hotel staff or graduate trainee focused. Someone looking for employment as a nurse is unlikely to find such a post at a recruitment fair for computing staff. Attitudes of each group according to Gouldner had effect on their job orientation to their employer, job and work colleagues. Cosmopolitans , to Gouldner, are freer agents often professionals whose role and rewards are based on expertise which can be transferred readily between employers and is sought after by organisations.
Locals are employees who have or desire long service.
They have progressed by increments and promotions in the hierarchical, internal labour market of the firm. They reap rewards of pay increments and organisational benefits. They have, and are encouraged to have, commitment and loyalty to the organisation. They have depth knowledge of organisational history, procedures, values, interpersonal networks and, according to hierarchical level, organisational politics. Cosmopolitans can move more freely in the external labour market and from employer to employer.