Getting The Most Out Of Career Jobs Fairs

Use career fair to obtain a job, not only information and free effects.

Career Fairs held in Our Country for you to get an insight into the working life that awaits you. Then we have to be well prepared so you can get answers to questions you may have.

Campuses across the country organizes several times a year career days where students and employers can meet for an informal chat about the past and future. Are you smart, however, you have an opportunity to use this opportunity to associate good contacts and obtain valuable information.

Here are some great tips on how to make the most of career fairs.

Prior:

• Think through how you want to appear for an employer who does not know you. How can you illuminate yourself in the best possible way?
• Make sure you know your resume well, and think about how to present it orally.
• Print happy with a couple of copies of your resume that you can give to prospective employers.
• Do your research on the companies in advance. Often, career days own website stating which companies will participate, and links to websites where you can find more information about them.
• Prepare questions on the basis of Research you are doing. Remember that asking good questions shows that you have concrete interest in the company.

On career day:

• Be yourself and do not try to convince the employer that you are nothing more or less than others.
• Think about how you introduce yourself. Be polite but engaged, and be sure to have a handshake with confidence in.
• Ask questions to companies, and if you get the opportunity tell the most relevant about yourself to the employer.
• Try to get an idea of ​​what types of candidates now have hired from your field of study in recent years and why just these candidates got the job. They give good examples and concrete possible paths to employment.
• Inquire about the possibilities to follow up now in retrospect. Perhaps the person who stands on condition a business card or other business information that can be useful for you later.
• Are you not graduating this year, it might be possible to write degree thesis for now. Please inquire about the possibility.
• Also ask if the company hires students for part-time jobs, summer jobs and the company has internship schemes (internships for students). 

Getting The Most Out Of Career Jobs Fairs

After career day:

• Use the information you received from your employer able to follow up now. Often refer to corporate entities to follow up vacancy announcements and find more information. Keep up to date there! Some employers use channels twitter and Facebook to inform potential applicants about recruitment activities. Sign up these groups.

• Whether to submit an application, view the call from career day. Then you've already got yourself an edge over other applicants in that you have actually made contact with the company and shown interest earlier. And if you are lucky, it is precisely the one you talked to on career day interviewing you if you get there. And there is no disadvantage.

• Take some time to review your skills and your wishes for the future and see how this matches with what you have received information on career day. Marketers often talk about a SWOT analysis of a product for instance. Whether in this context is a product that the employer shall "buy": What are your opportunities, strengths, weaknesses and threats. Concretization and work with these things leading up to a possible job interview or during the years of study, as set even stronger.