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As you know we have a number of job fairs going on at the university and it is a great
opportunity for students to meet with employers. The way the job fair is set up is through
a variety of tables spread around the arena or the room we are using and students can
walk around to those employers and speak to them for two or three minutes about opportunities
that may exist. It really is a good way for students to pass their resume to the HR contact
at the fair.
What’s most important is at the job fair, you take the opportunity to meet everybody.
For example, if you are someone that is looking for work in Public Relations, there may not
be a PR firm there per say but every organization has someone that does public relations. So
you may want to sue that opportunity to meet the organization and explore more opportunities
that may not be obvious with there relationship at the fair.
Well you do want to show up. You want to look professional. You want to make sure that you
are ready to roll because the impression you make, even though it might be a few minutes,
its very important. So you want to dress professionally, be well polished in a business suit, both
men and women. Have a nice, clean copy of resume there as well. You do not want to act
inappropriately. You don’t want to be on your cell phone, you don’t want to be texting
or on your I-phone. You want to show the employer you’re really serious about the job. You
want to have an idea of who is at the fair and do some homework ahead of time and find
out which employers might be of interest to you. And have some knowledge when you first
walk up to them to make an impression.
Everybody should attend the job fair. Whether you are a freshman, sophomore, junior or senior.
You know many employers like to hire sophomore’s and junior’s because they grab them early
on in their college careers or have them intern or work part time and then most employers
use that part time or internship to kind of hire their full time employees.
If you are a first or second year student, you can pull some stuff from high school and
many students are very active in high school so you want to take that as transferable skills.
Whether you’re the head of an organization or playing on a sports team or involved in
a religious or synagogue type events, you can bring that up as well.
Employers like to see some experience but if you have the interest to learn more and
you’re a freshman or sophomore, that gives you more of an example to explore an opportunity
to get more experience under your belt.
Look at all four years of Hofstra and include as much relevant activities and organizations,
any part time or internships as appropriate.
We offer everything from the beginning to the end. So if you are a first or second year
student, you can come to the office and do some exploration. A lot of freshman and sophomores
use the office to explore their major and use a couple of our assessments to make sure
they are making the right decision as far as their major. Some students will come in
their sophomore and junior year and look at how they can apply their major to an internship.
Some students intern in totally different areas then their majors and that’s ok. Your
major just necessarily equal the job or internship you are going to have.
We have been bring employers into the office to help us with mock interviews to give students
real, practical examples of how to be better interviewers and then when you are a junior
or senior we are running on campus recruiting both for internships and full time jobs.
Also, every Monday we do an e-mail to students of all the weekly events coming up and every
Friday we do a job e-mail called Career Connections where every opportunity that comes into the
office all through the course of the week, full time, part time or internship, gets pushed
out to students via e-mail.
We have a monthly internship newsletter as well. Which is really good, kinda highlighting
potential internships opportunities in addition to that.