On Thursday (2/15/07), the manager (actually, my old manager) in the KS office I work with and I went to the Engineering and Computer Science Career Fair at KU in Lawrence. They had the career fair in the Kansas Union (map) and it was just like I remembered it.
Although it was only about 2 and a half years since I graduated from KU, it seemed like it had just been yesterday that I had attended the career fair looking for a job myself. Which, by the way, I never got a job this way :(
It was a relief to know that the students I talked to were just as nervous as I was when I was in their position. After they realized that I was not much older than them and I was actually still in school, most of them loosened up around me.
The fair started at 12:30 (with an awesome buffet lunch before at 11:30), but by 3:00 we had only gotten about 3 resumes. We were worried that it was going to be a bust, but the last 2 hours until 5:00 were much better and we ended up with about 20 resumes. I even talked to a couple of graduate students that we might consider for the team I'm on: SAM (Strategic Account Management).
I definitely don't miss the days of looking for a job and the notorious catch 22: employers are looking for applicants with experience but the applicant needs the job in order to get the experience they're looking for.
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