Hey Hawkeyes!<\/p>\n
This is the week of the engineering career fair! My first year, I was terrified of the career fair since I didn’t know how to answer questions or how to talk to the recruiters about the company. Over the last four years I have done several practice interviews, several real interviews, added some great experiences to my resum\u00e9, and have learned to enjoy the career fair. Good thing I like it because this is the most important one! This is the career fair that will (hopefully) help me find a job! As a graduating senior, this is my best chance to get my resum\u00e9 to real people from these companies rather than just applying online.<\/p>\n
I spent the first several days of this week re-modeling my resum\u00e9 to make it look a bit more professional as well as making sure I had all the right things on it. It’s always difficult to try to predict what a recruiter will want to see. I have a document that I just list all of my project, jobs, activities, and experiences (research, internship) so that I can easily build a resum\u00e9 for specific jobs just from pulling things off the document. After combing through my resum\u00e9 to catch any errors, I took it to a professional development peer advisor in the Student Development Center to have it critiqued. I was told that I have a very strong resum\u00e9 (yay!) and I had a few minor things to fix. I was also curious about the wording for a certain part and they were able to help me with that as well.<\/p>\n
I’ve been practicing my 20 second elevator speech (introduction, year in school, major, looking for ____ position, really interested in ____ because ___.) so I feel ready on that front. Now I just need to make sure my dress pants are wrinkle free, my high heels are ready to go, and my resum\u00e9 is tucked carefully in my portfolio. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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