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Has anyone ever actually gotten a job through a career fair?

Nope, but I was not really interested in what they had to give in my field (EECE, computer option) at the time. Most of it was oil field companies. Ironically, I now work in the oil field.
 
I did get a lot of pens, pamplets, shirts, led lights, and other useless trinkes when I used to go though.

But of course, I wasn't all that studious of a student anyways.
 
Sort of...My girlfriend was working for a company that happened to be exhibiting at an upcoming career fair and introduced me to the HR rep there. But then, I was probably given preference over similarly-qualified applicants based on her recommendation.

I also got an interview from another job fair, but declined the second interview after deciding that there was no way in hell I was moving to "OH THE HUMANITY" Lakehurst. Not because of any irrational fear of incendiary dirigibles, mind you. It's just....Lakehurst.
 
just got done interviewing with a company that came to my school during a career fair. It definatly helps to know someone who works with in the company though, as that will usually get you ahead of the rest of the crowd in terms of actually getting to an interview, the rest is up to you.
 
No not really. Unless you really just make a flat out good impression or fit a job to a T, your resume goes in a pile with several hundred other resumes.

I've always been on the candidate side and a few weeks ago was on the opposite side as the recruiter for my current company. One or two candidates stood out and are currently being considered for the internships we have at our company, everyone else's just sits in a big pile.
 
Our engineering college has a career fair every spring and fall, I always went to them as an undergrad. The companies are mostly looking for co-op students and I did get my first co-op job because of going to the career fair.

Some look for full-time employees though, and before I graduated in 2004, I went to the career fair to see if there were any companies that were of interest to me. There was one company that had a huge line of CS students waiting to talk to them, but the guy for all other majors looked pretty bored. I stopped and talked to him and dropped off my resume. I got a call back about two weeks later to schedule an interview and ended up getting a job offer there. The money was good, the benefits were decent, but it wasn't really work I wanted to do, so I turned it down and applied for grad school.

I've got to think it's better than just mailing resumes to companies looking to hire you. The company wouldn't be there if they weren't looking for employees, and if you make an impression on the person there, they are likely to remember you when it comes to picking people to call back for interviews.
 
I got my first job thru a job fair. Of course this was in High School and the job was at Blockbuster Music....but it was thru a job fair at my school.
 
I've been to one career fair, and I HATED it. You had to wait in lines for 20-30 minutes sometimes to get the opportunity to talk to an employer, and once you got to the front they pretty much just took your resume, asked what type of position you were looking for, and ushered you out of the way. What a waste of time. If the job market isn't that tight, it's probably a better experience, but when a lot of people are looking for work, they are pretty much useless because of the number of people that attend.
 
I've been to a few job fairs, and haven't gotten anything yet. What always bothers me about it is that for some companies, you wait in line for half an hour and when you get to the rep they hand you a notecard with "careers.***.com" printed on it and tell you to apply online:roll:
 
no, not even close. then again, all the fairs i went to were in 2002-2004 when hiring for cs majors was really weak. i did get my job out of school through my schools career office.... online posting of upcoming company interviews, online resume submission, easiest thing in the world.


trmiv described them EXACTLY as i would
 
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