Went to the Career Fair yesterday. The theme was “Due to the current economic climate, we are not…”. Or at least I think that is what it was. I imagine that is the case with career fairs everywhere right now. My focus was on getting a summer internship and I’m not being picky, so it was good to get a feel for who was looking. I need to spend a few hours this weekend getting online and applying. I’ll start with the shotgun approach, as many as I can…then go from there.
But I have some advice about job fairs. Have a system. Lots of booths. Lots of people. You would hate to walk up to someone and 30 seconds into talking to them realize that you came by and asked them about their company a half an hour earlier. Which I totally did. Twice. The second time, the guy looked at me like I was out of my mind. I could tell at first that he was trying to decide whether I was a complete idiot or whether he was just having wicked déjà vu. He didn’t say anything but I think he figured it out. Crap.
So have a system. Go to all the booths you want to see first. Stand in line and feel awkward if you have to. If you keep trying to “stop by” and find an available recruiter, you rarely will. Don’t feel awkward standing and waiting. They know why you’re there. By waiting you indicate interest. Anyway, once you’ve seen the booths you want to see, start at one end and work to the other. I kept trying to “stop by” booths and went back and forth the fair about a dozen times, mixed where I had and had not been and well, ended up being the idiot.
Gotta get back to studying. Production operations management mid-term tomorrow. I’m leaving this sentence as a reminder to myself to talk about the networking lunch I went to today. I learned a valuable lesson, rubber bands taste like burning and the taste doesn’t go away. I’ll explain next time.
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