Computing Career Fair Coming This Fall

2009 will go down as the year with two computing career fairs! 

Many of you attended the big three-day CoC/ECE event in February. Now there will a new, computing-only job hunting opportunity, College of Computing Career Fair 1.0, coming September 15-16.

 

This is a must-attend event for all computing students. Whether you will be graduating this year or are an entering freshman, this is your best opportunity to see who is hiring and what they are looking for. This is a chance to line up a job after graduation, an internship or co-op position next summer, or just to learn more about companies that you might want to work for.

 

College of Computing Career Fair 1.0 is a total break from the past, with a new format, new focus, and a new location. The new format involves moving the fair to the fall and running it all day – no shutdown during lunch! It also will be held in conjunction with the Georgia Tech Career Fair September 14-15. This is all in response to comments from companies, many of whom did not want to make a second trip to campus in February and most of whom wanted an earlier start to their hiring cycles that tend to focus on spring graduations from other schools.

 

This will be a College of Computing-run event. The focus will now be entirely on computing – CS and CM, undergraduate and graduate. This is what the participating companies will be looking for, and that means more opportunities for you. CompE majors will be invited to participate, but the companies present will not be expecting EE expertise as in previous years.

 

Our two-day event will feature different companies both days.

 

And don’t expect to walk to the Student Center this year. Hop on the Tech Trolley and get off at TSRB – the venue for this all-new fair. In fact, on September 15^th the CoC Career Fair at TSRB and the Georgia Tech Career Fair at CRC both will be open and are just a Tech Trolley ride apart!

 

For additional details on College of Computing Career Fair 1.0 and for a list of attending companies as the event approaches, go to the fair Web site at:

 

One other change for this year: there is no requirement to submit your résumé early! That does not, however, mean that you don’t need one! 

 

A well-prepared, readable résumé is the first thing a recruiter will expect from you. In addition to your carefully planned 20-second as you hand it to them, your résumé is the main memory of you that the recruiter will have with the when they start thinking of potential candidates to contact for interviews. Start working on yours now, and continue building on it every day until the career fair. See the accompanying sidebar for tips on building a “knock ‘em dead’ résumé

 

Mark September 15^th and 16^th on your calendar and put a sticky note on your mirror to remind you to get ready for this big event. It definitely could be a defining opportunity for you!