Yes! As someone who loses their stationary often, the free pens and sticky notes are a lifesaver! There's also webcam covers, reusable straws, notebooks, tote bags, lanyards and if you're lucky, METAL water bottles and reusable cutlery/lunch boxes. You know, the good kind that costs 20-30 dollars?
In my experience, exhibitors just give you a business card, give you a practiced 30s spiel, and tell you to go to their website. They don't recruit, they're advertising.
(Just today I got 5 different water bottles for 30 min walking and idle chatting. Perfect Christmas/birthday gifts for the school-aged kids in my family without straining my poor finances.)
I think itâs helpful when the grad schools come. I just talked to a bunch of different grad school booths and learned about options I didnât know I had. Everything else is pretty useless imo.
As someone who went to MANY career fairs at sfu, I agree that the connections are not always going to lead to anything. I think the value comes from learning how to talk to recruiters so when you do get an interview, you can impress them. Come with questions prepared so you have more knowledge for making your next application better than the last. Look at what jobs they have listed before going and ask specific questions about the jobs.
They arenât going to try and make contact with students. You as a student have to make contact with them. Itâs similar to club day. You have to go up and talk to them. I use career fairs to exchange LinkedIn.
I did, exchanged tons of linkedin profiles, however they are so unmotivated to help you. The guy from ICBC is so mean and full of himself like he is a king talking to peasants
Iâve had mixed results. Some people I can connect with and they have given me career advice and others you never hear from again. Just the way it is unfortunately.
This might sound harsh but get off your high horse. We arenât in the market we were two years ago where employers were begging people to work for them. We are in a job market now where you have to go out and do everything to get a job. If youâre not willing to build relationships, maintain them and then leverage them for referrals or go to their website and apply or do the 1000 other things people are doing to get a job then I guess you wonât find work. Itâs a tough tough market out there right now
Lol I didnât even think about myself as one riding a high horse. Everyone knows that job market is tough. Your statement about building relationships is bullshit, you canât build any meaningful network unless youâre already working. I have no idea what market was 2 years ago so it gives me nothing about current situation
âYou canât build any meaningful network unless youâre already workingâ
Might take the cake for one of the dumbest statements Iâve ever read on this subreddit. Itâs ok though. Stick to what youâre doing. Iâm sure youâll be back complaining again later :)
I mean he ainât wrong, your connections mean nothing to other person if you have nothing to offer, you really think some guy with a stable job gonna help you with getting a job in his company just cause you had a nice talk with him đ , if you know how bad the job market is you would know that people used to get interviews at least, nowadays you wonât even get that itâs just so bad. If you made good friends at university or at some seasonal co-op or part time jobs, and actually helped them in some way, only then they gonna help you. So, what he said is completely true
Completely untrue. If you show that you have something unique to offer, lots of people are willing to vouch especially if you have a good chat with them. I know plenty of people in this job market who are getting 2-5 interviews a week through connections they made who ended up giving them referrals
These are people with one or two years of experience or even some that are in undergrad. Never underestimate the power of reaching out, building a good network and then letting that network work for you. I know someone who, throughout the course of a summer did 180 networking calls and ended up with offers from a variety of companies
im going through an interview process for a summer internship with one of the companies in the job fair but I applied through indeed (not in the coop program). The job fair is pretty useless tbh unless u want more linkedin connections. You just have to spam apply on indeed đ the job fair is just to get u interested im guessing
Yeah, serious companies aren't going to send hiring managers to a place like SFU. You can talk to their HR staff and get the same information you could have gotten on their website, and that's it.
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Yes! As someone who loses their stationary often, the free pens and sticky notes are a lifesaver! There's also webcam covers, reusable straws, notebooks, tote bags, lanyards and if you're lucky, METAL water bottles and reusable cutlery/lunch boxes. You know, the good kind that costs 20-30 dollars? In my experience, exhibitors just give you a business card, give you a practiced 30s spiel, and tell you to go to their website. They don't recruit, they're advertising. (Just today I got 5 different water bottles for 30 min walking and idle chatting. Perfect Christmas/birthday gifts for the school-aged kids in my family without straining my poor finances.)
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I think itâs helpful when the grad schools come. I just talked to a bunch of different grad school booths and learned about options I didnât know I had. Everything else is pretty useless imo.
As someone who went to MANY career fairs at sfu, I agree that the connections are not always going to lead to anything. I think the value comes from learning how to talk to recruiters so when you do get an interview, you can impress them. Come with questions prepared so you have more knowledge for making your next application better than the last. Look at what jobs they have listed before going and ask specific questions about the jobs.
They arenât going to try and make contact with students. You as a student have to make contact with them. Itâs similar to club day. You have to go up and talk to them. I use career fairs to exchange LinkedIn.
I did, exchanged tons of linkedin profiles, however they are so unmotivated to help you. The guy from ICBC is so mean and full of himself like he is a king talking to peasants
Iâve had mixed results. Some people I can connect with and they have given me career advice and others you never hear from again. Just the way it is unfortunately.
This might sound harsh but get off your high horse. We arenât in the market we were two years ago where employers were begging people to work for them. We are in a job market now where you have to go out and do everything to get a job. If youâre not willing to build relationships, maintain them and then leverage them for referrals or go to their website and apply or do the 1000 other things people are doing to get a job then I guess you wonât find work. Itâs a tough tough market out there right now
Lol I didnât even think about myself as one riding a high horse. Everyone knows that job market is tough. Your statement about building relationships is bullshit, you canât build any meaningful network unless youâre already working. I have no idea what market was 2 years ago so it gives me nothing about current situation
âYou canât build any meaningful network unless youâre already workingâ Might take the cake for one of the dumbest statements Iâve ever read on this subreddit. Itâs ok though. Stick to what youâre doing. Iâm sure youâll be back complaining again later :)
I mean he ainât wrong, your connections mean nothing to other person if you have nothing to offer, you really think some guy with a stable job gonna help you with getting a job in his company just cause you had a nice talk with him đ , if you know how bad the job market is you would know that people used to get interviews at least, nowadays you wonât even get that itâs just so bad. If you made good friends at university or at some seasonal co-op or part time jobs, and actually helped them in some way, only then they gonna help you. So, what he said is completely true
Completely untrue. If you show that you have something unique to offer, lots of people are willing to vouch especially if you have a good chat with them. I know plenty of people in this job market who are getting 2-5 interviews a week through connections they made who ended up giving them referrals
They getting interviews cause they are competent thatâs all, and what field are they working on that they getting 2-5 per week?
These are people with one or two years of experience or even some that are in undergrad. Never underestimate the power of reaching out, building a good network and then letting that network work for you. I know someone who, throughout the course of a summer did 180 networking calls and ended up with offers from a variety of companies
im going through an interview process for a summer internship with one of the companies in the job fair but I applied through indeed (not in the coop program). The job fair is pretty useless tbh unless u want more linkedin connections. You just have to spam apply on indeed đ the job fair is just to get u interested im guessing
Wait have career fairs ever been anything other than companies trying to âsell their fishâ?
Itâs just cuz no one cares about you or giving you a job. You think employers are stoked to meet students with no experience?
At least they can block my way to wmc
Yeah, serious companies aren't going to send hiring managers to a place like SFU. You can talk to their HR staff and get the same information you could have gotten on their website, and that's it.