The W.P. Carey School of Business is holding the Spring to Success career fair exclusively for business students on Feb. 4.
Over 50 companies are scheduled to attend the event, which will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Arizona and Ventana ballrooms of the MU.
Kevin Burns, director of the Business Career Center, encourages all levels of business students to attend the fair.
“Even going as early as your freshman or sophomore year can help build a relationship with future employers,” Burns said.
Most students tend to look at the career fair as a way to get an internship or a job, Burns said.
“I would like people to stop looking at these as job or internship fairs and look at them like relationship fairs,” he said.
The relationships that students can build with company representatives will benefit them later when they are applying for a job after college, Burns said.
The relationship that is built makes your application more than just a piece of paper because the employers will have a point of reference and know what kind of worker a student is.
There is something for everyone at the job fair as students can talk to representatives from companies such as All State Insurance, Black & Decker, Dillard’s and General Mills.
Students can get information that will help them compare different employers, future job information, as well as information about internships.
“I know a lot of people who have gotten internships through it [the career fair],” said finance and journalism sophomore Zach Reedy.
“It’s great that the school provides us with this opportunity,” Reedy said.
Burns encourages students who don’t think they have time or think that the career fair will be a waste of their time to stop in anyway.
“Students who go and don’t have high expectations find opportunities they never could have dreamed of,” Burns said. “If you don’t have time now, when are you going to have time?”
Reach the reporter at beth.easterbrook@asu.edu
