As a part of the University Career Services Career Week, which began yesterday and will run through Friday, University students will learn about, apply for and interview for jobs and internships with more than 170 employers.
Career Week kicked off with the College undergraduate job fair and continues today and Wednesday with a focus on internship opportunities. Events will conclude Thursday and Friday with the Curry School Education Expo, one of the largest education career events in the southeastern United States.All activities are held on the third floor of Newcomb Hall from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Ladd Flock, director of career activities for arts and sciences, reported that yesterday's undergraduate job fair, which attracted 30 employers, was of fairly average size. Approximately 800 students attended the fair.
Employers attending the event ranged from Toys R' Us and Walgreens to Philips Morris USA, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Census Bureau.
"There hasn't been a large influx [of students] because we are looking for specifically engineering majors," said Dominick Carra, of Picatinny Arsenal, a U.S. Army armament research, development and engineering center based in northern New Jersey. "We've been disappointed in numbers of resumes, but those that we've seen have been very qualified."
A wide variety of University students attended the job fair, some clad in business attire and armed with resumes, others just taking in the variety of employers and gathering information."Some [students] definitely knew what they wanted to do," said Mike Baker, representing Toys R' Us. "Most did not, and that's normal."
Fourth-year Commerce students James Moore and Chris Paulk said they viewed the job fair as a way to investigate and learn about the jobs available after graduation instead of a means to seek definite employment.
"I came last semester, too; it's good for ideas," Moore said. "I got here about 15 minutes ago. I'm underdressed and under-prepared
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