Take career fairs seriously!

[inconnu]

<p>I stumbled into a conversation regarding summer internships, and I wanted to impart some of my thoughts from that conversation. Last year, I posted that career fair reps really do want to help you (<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-berkeley/797060-career-fair-reps.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-berkeley/797060-career-fair-reps.html&lt;/a&gt;), and I'm mostly reiterating that same advice. Seeing as there is one last career fair left, I encourage those of you still looking for jobs to go get recruited (especially you younger forum-goers). My experience finding an internship for the summer was not unlike last year's (as described in the thread linked to), but for a much more top-tier company. They liked my research, set up and interview, and matched me with a mentor. Easy peasy. </p>

<p>Find the recruiter from the company you think you belong at, ask for contacts within the company if they have any, tell them about your side projects, and appear smart because you probably are and the company should know that. Good luck!</p>

[KnitKnots]

<p>After going to two career fairs, I’ve noticed that no matter how I sell myself, recruiters only want business, EECS, or computer science majors; Macy’s was the only company that bothered to speak to me and the only thing they were offering was a workshop to become a store manager at “one of they many locations”. So now I just tell everyone I’m in EECS and nab free stuff. </p>

<p>It’s the best.</p>