I have to say that the Career Fair Preparation workshop has thus far been the most entertaining and helpful workshop that I have gone to. The main focus of the workshop was to prepare us for the Career Fair that was going to happen the next day. I will admit that I felt overwhelmed to say the least. Finding out that if you are ever in an elevator with the CEO of the company you’re working for can either bring you to new and greater opportunities or leave you where you are, was a bit unnerving.
I found the two speakers (human resource employees of Verizon) to be energetic yet stern in their advice. Some tips they gave were creating a mini-speech so that when you network, go to an interview or get stuck in an elevator with a high profile CEO, you can easily answer the question that gets most people “Tell us a little about you.” Doing this in advace, they said, would eliminate the “ums” and “errs” that tend to plague many people’s response. In my own past experiences, I have tended to forget to say important accomplishments because I just say what comes to mind.
Although I did not go to the Career Fair because I hardly thought my resume had anything that would give me an advantage over the competitor, I will be sure to take the advice given for next year’s Career Fair.