THE BLACK COLLEGIAN's Pre-Graduation Virtual Career Fair that we announced in our earlier posting, Nearing Graduation and Still No Job. NOW what?, is now well underway, with new employers joining the Fair every day since it was launched.
We've been modifying the flow of the Fair on-the-fly for this year, expanding it beyond its original scope, to good results. We decided to post occasional updates about the Fair to the blog, so that users subscribed to our http://feeds.feedburner.com/BlackCollegian using the "careers and jobs" or "what's new" category can automatically learn about developments and new hiring employers added right up through graduation.
Additionally, we've changed a few things around that we'll discuss more fully on the blog as the Fair goes on. For one thing, we've added a Career Fair Survey , where we invite Career Fair visitors to return to our site and provide their feedback and suggestions on the employer websites they've visited and jobs they've applied to, as well as feature for suggestions for the next Fair. We're doing this because our goal this year was to get jobseekers with the most direct access to the open opportunities and the best introductory information specifically for entry-level candidates, new grads and students. We are constantly adjusting the format and the links for the Fair as new employers join up to save time for our readers who still need a job before graduation. We are also planning to run a paid focus group for jobseekers after the Fair, and survey respondents will be the first people we'll consider for invitation to the group.
Helping us kick off the Fair were these employers, who immediately responded to our invitations for those companies who were still seeking entry-level and student candidates for open opportunities this season:
- American Heart Association
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Bulloch County (GA) Schools
- The Children's Place and Disney Store North America
- City Year, Inc.
- Electronic Arts
- Enterprise Rent-a-Car
- Green Dot Public Schools
- HDR
- Inflexxion
- Intel
- Jersey City Public Schools
- Madison Metropolitan School District
- MPI Research
- MTA Metro-North Railroad
- National City Corporation
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
- The Pepsi Bottling Group
- Proofpoint, Inc.
- San Antonio Police Department
- Shell Oil Company
- Spherion
- Stryker Medical
- U.S. Department of State
- Wells Fargo Advantage Funds
To receive additional updates about the Fair and new employers as they come in, feel free to subscribe to our feed, and stop back frequently until you find a job.
Good luck!
