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Anyone ever been to a Career Fair before?

if you are looking for job/internship in the summer its best to start looking in the fall. Thats when I got mine, from a big company atleast.
 
Worthwhile for getting a lot free merch. Otherwise, they tend to be kind of crappy, especially for specialized degrees. You get a lot people trying to sell you retail management jobs...
 
I've only found they're looking for accountants, or engineers. Other than that, just go there for the free swag, you'll never buy a pen for 10 years.
 
I went to one way back when and was told by a certain company that I couldn't apply there because my degrees didn't fit the criteria they had. Fast forward to 4 months later, and I was working for them and was told by the HR person there that my degree's were exactly what they were looking for.
Basically, the idiots at career fairs have no F'ing clue about anything.
 
Very useful, i got my job at IBM through a career fair (well not exactly the career fair, i missed it, but i was able to connect with the same people at the fair through our school's internal job posting site, other people got their interviews through the career fair).

But yeah, i have an accounting job, so what chimmytime says might be true.
 
Actually there are pretty useful. About 4+ years ago when I went to my college's career fair, I did get a call back and interview from one of the local companies I gave my resume to. They never announced the job opening in the paper or online, and were explictly using the career fair to find someone.
 
Got my first co-op from going to the career fair.

Second co-op was not from the career fair.

Went to the fall career fair last year when I was graduating in December. Ended up interviewing with a company and turning down a full-time job offer for $55,000/yr. That was kind of hard to do.

Edit: So yeah, it's worth your time. Talk to your prof that's teaching the class, even if you could get through the career fair in the time after your class, in my experience it's best to go as early as possible because they get sick of talking to people all day and some will leave early. Also - if there's a list of participating companies, look it over and research ones you may be interested in first. I did a lot of research on the company that offered me a job, one of my roomates talked to them as well (but had done no research and didn't know what they did) and they never called him.
 
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