I heard about this career fair after finding out that I couldn’t play basketball because of it. After already walking downstairs, I figured I might as well check out what all this fuss was about. I came from a job interview, so I was already dressed professionally, and was good to go. The event took place in both gyms and had a lot of students and companies. At first, I was a bit nervous and intimidated because I didn’t know how to start a conversation with all these wealthy businessmen. After a while, I felt more comfortable, and I was able to talk to different people from different organizations. After speaking to many companies, some of them offered job applications. The reason behind me visiting this fair, however, wasn’t to find job, but to just expand my knowledge and help myself understand what I want to do when I’m older. I went home and researched some of the companies that I saw at the fair, and I learned a lot about what they do and more. After all this, I realized, even though you can make a lot working for different companies, I want to follow after a Jay Z quote from “Diamonds in Sierra Leone” in which he said, “Im not a businessman, Im a business man”. I would recommend this fair to everyone, especially incoming freshman who don’t know exactly what they want to do when they’re older. It really helped me find out a lot of things I didnt know, and although at first it may be intimidating, you will get more comfortable, and learn a lot of things, and maybe even figure out what you want to do when you’re older.
