College career fair is an on campus meet and greet between potential employees (students) and potential employers (companies and government agencies). Your school is likely to have multiple career fairs at different time during the year (i.e. fall, winter, spring) and there might even be an engineering specific career fair. My advice is to go to the engineering career fair for sure, but make sure you also look up the list of companies at the general career fairs (should be on the career center website) to see if there are engineering companies in the general career fairs that you can go meet with as well. It’s easy to write off going to the career fair as a waste of time, but I will tell you this: I have gotten both an internship and job offers from the career fairs that I have attended. Although there are definitely some companies that go to career fairs to promote themselves rather than do any serious hiring, I have been part of company recruiting teams that go to the college career fairs to really find candidates to hire. Since I have been on both sides (being both a company’s representative and a student) at many career fairs, here are 6 do’s and don’t that you should know to be effective at these events.
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