Graduate Fairs
Careers and graduate recruitment fairs are an important resource for students to use to help find graduate jobs. Even if you don’t get a job as a direct result of the fair, you are still taking steps towards your chosen career and moving closer to your perfect job by finding out more about the graduate job market.
Careers fairs are one of the best ways to find a graduate job in your area of interest. They give an excellent opportunity to meet potential employers face to face and market yourself to your chosen industry. Even if you haven’t finished your course and are still in further study, careers fairs are still worthwhile as a source of information, contacts and interview experience.
The benefits of attending a graduate fair are:
- Honing your interview skills – Even if you aren’t offered a job, talking to prospective employers about graduate appointments gives you valuable confidence and experience of interviews.
- Expanding your network – Meeting job recruiters and even fellow graduates helps you build useful contacts for future reference.
- Learning industry information – Speaking to job recruitment professionals in your chosen sector is a great way to learn about the industry.
- Gathering information about companies – Investigating the type of graduate placements offered by a company tells you a lot about that organisation as a whole.
- Mostly immediate job vacancies.
- Some voluntary work opportunities.
- Some temporary jobs.
- Speak to companies on a one-to-one basis and face-to-face.
A wide range of exhibitors attend our graduate fairs, including: national and regional companies, voluntary organisations, university departments and local companies.
The careers department will be offering CV/Application help on the day which will aid towards application for graduate jobs. Therefore this would be a beneficial factor before or after you speak to the companies at a one-to-one basis. You will be able to take away helpful careers leaflet which will again guide you with the application processes.
It’s always wise to bring in your CV, and plan out a set of questions before you attended the fair. This would be helpful, as it would give you a clear idea of what opportunities are available from certain companies.
The cost is £350 for recruitment agencies. £300 for employers, public sector bodies and postgraduate course providers. £150 for charities and voluntary organisations. All prices do not include VAT.
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If you have any questions about the Graduate Fair give us a call on 01772 89 4894 or email thebridge@uclan.ac.uk
