Job Fairs

[Lucario]

Originally Posted by kodaka

No. I haven't been to a job fair since I was in college. I've never seen an employer in my field attend a job fair. I've never known anyone to get a job from one in any other field either. But it doesn't matter what works for anyone else, it matters what works for you.

And if job fairs aren't working for you, then stop wasting your time going to them. Do something different.

I gave up on them years ago.

[tban]

You pretty much have to have a great first impression with the recruiters at the job fair. I was never good with this because some companies will be serious while others are there just for the sake of promoting their company. A lot are there just to collect resumes.

I got a few call backs and interviews from job fairs but it was mostly from my resume.

[Chatteress]

Originally Posted by kodaka

No. I haven't been to a job fair since I was in college. I've never seen an employer in my field attend a job fair. I've never known anyone to get a job from one in any other field either. But it doesn't matter what works for anyone else, it matters what works for you.

And if job fairs aren't working for you, then stop wasting your time going to them. Do something different.

I agree. My industry holds an annual job fair but candidates still have to go through the formalized, tedious, grueling hiring process regardless so the job fair is a total waste of time. My friend convinced me to go this year and we left after 1/2 because there were only 10 employers and three were out of state! Very few of them were even hiring for our profession so it was a waste of time and parking fees.