Charting their future

April 2018     No Comments

More than 90 employers and graduate schools were all under one roof March 15 as students, alumni, and other job seekers gathered in the gym of the SUNY Poly Campus Center for the 2018 Career and Graduate School Fair.

“It gives them an opportunity to sell themselves specifically to the employers that they’re interested in looking at opportunities for post-graduation,” said Marybeth Lyons, vice president of Student Affairs as she spoke with media at the event. “With a lot of students coming up for commencement and may this is really there one of their first opportunities to have an introduction to employers.”

Local, state and national employers, as well as representatives from a variety of graduate programs were on hand to meet with students, alums, and members of the community to discuss current and upcoming job opportunities, internships and graduate degree programs.

While hundreds of students and alumni get the chance to learn more about prospective employers, those employers receive the opportunity to meet students and alums that are interested in being a part of their team – be it full-time, part-time, or as part of an internship.

Job seekers map out their strategies before heading into the 2018 Career and Graduate School Fair.

A myriad of employers were on hand, from accounting to healthcare, manufacturing to engineering, all giving students the opportunity to not only show off their analytic skills and academic prowess, but also the chance to use their honed abilities of interpersonal communication, social graces, leadership, and dress code. Those “soft skills” are something that that are crucial when it comes to interviewing and making it in the job market.

“It’s very nice having that one-on-one communication with an employer,” SUNY Poly senior Joshua Menconi told WKTV. “And they give you a lot of very valuable information.”

For those whose next leg of their journey may not be the workforce, there was numerous opportunities at the fair to explore the possibility of further education.