Career Fair
What a great experience! Only two weeks into our program and we are already talking with recruiters from companies. The career fair started at 3 pm, but I wasn’t able to get there until about halfway into the event, due to work. I definitely maximized the time I was there, but left the event hungering for more! I was torn away only by the desire to see my children and to give my wife some relief from watching them all day. Despite not being able to stay longer, I was still able to have some nice conversations with employers. Ironically, I felt that the conversations seemed to flow a little easier with some of the employers because of the difficult class experience from last week. I felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude to my teacher after this event. It may be commonsense to most people, but keeping up to date with the current events (especially in the business sense) really helped to ease the awkward moments in initial conversations and allowed me to contribute more to what the employers were saying. In other words, it made it feel more like a conversation than an interview. This format made me feel more comfortable. One of the other unanticipated benefits of this experience was the interaction with my classmates. Even in this more “competitive” setting, I felt nothing but complete support and friendliness from my classmates. That was a wonderful feeling in itself. I feel so privileged to be a part of the experience and am so grateful to be surrounded by such support.