Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Upcoming Spring Career Fair!

Hello everyone and welcome to my Blog! This is my first time blogging ever, so please read with an open mind :-). I hope you enjoy and learn something every now and then.

Okay, so the WPI Spring Career Fair is February 4th and 5th...next week! Ahh! I definitely need an Internship for this summer, so I have to take full advantage of all the companies coming to campus. I need to be prepared beyond prepared! How will I accomplish this? Well first off, starting to prepare NOW! Not next Tuesday like in the past (bad decision let me tell you). So
  1. Start re-critiquing my resume

I have gotten my resume looked at countless time, but it is always a work in progress. Between the progression of my WPI projects, courses I am taking, clubs I am involved in, my resume is always changing slightly. So between the drop-off box in the CDC and Resumazing (on Thursday 2/29) I think my resume should be bulletproof! (Lets keep our fingers crossed anyway)

2. Attending CDC events that help prepare students for the Fair

So the CDC always has something going on that can help me present myself better, particularly at the Career Fair. Like tonight, I am going to EMC's workshop "How to work a Career Fair". I'm hoping to gain a companies insight on what they are looking for in a student, that way I can exemplify that next week (and get and internship!)

3. Research, Research, Research!

I've always had the best response from companies that I actually knew about before hand. So when I come up to their table, and can say what program interests me in their company, they really pay attention to me and take more of an interest. So, I plan to go into my Job Finder account and search for the companies that are coming to the Career Fair that would be interested in me. Example, companies looking for Mechanical Engineering Interns. Then once I get that list, do some background research on each company and a) see if they are of interest to me, and b) get an idea of how their internship program works and the possible projects I'd be working on.

So between these three steps, I think/hope I will have a successful job search at the Career Fair. As long as I stick to my plan and don't procrastinate, I should be all types of prepared! Look out world, I'm getting a job!