UTA is hosting its All Majors Job and Internship Fair from noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Maverick Activities Center. All students and alumni are welcome to attend and network with dozens of employers for a variety of internships and part or full-time positions.
Students can sign up for the event and view a full list of employers on Handshake.
Organized by the Career Development Center, the fair will bring companies of varying sizes and industries from the Dallas Fort-Worth Area, as well as other state-wide regions and cities across the country.
Attendees are asked to dress professionally and bring updated copies of their resumes to the event, according to the Career Development Center.
Nikki Dickens,associate director for career engagement and professional development, said students would save time by researching the attending companies and planning who to speak with.
Students should look for what each company does, what they are hiring for and prepare an elevator pitch to sell themselves as a candidate, Dickens said.
Javier Rayo, assistant director of project management, encourages all students to attend the fair. He said that finding positions online is often difficult and can be confusing to understand what each employer is offering.
“When you meet with a recruiter, you get to explain a little bit about yourself, and maybe there's a position that a student wasn't aware of that might be a good fit,” Rayo said.
Dickens said the fair also offers the opportunity to interact with actual organization representatives.
“This is a really great opportunity to get information directly from recruiters or people that work at those companies that can help you to refine your resume, or refine your job search materials, or even to decide whether or not that's a company that you would be interested in working for in the future,” Dickens said.
The benefit of university job fairs is that they have a more accessible environment for students and alumni, specifically, than off campus community job fairs, she said.
“I never want to have students feel like they're just not ready to take on the job fair,” Rayo said. “There's always value in attending — even if just to look at the layout, see how the inner workings of the job fair work in preparation for maybe the future of their career journey.”
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