Career and job fairs
Fall
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SHOULD I GO? CAN I GO? All students are welcome to all events, regardless of sponsor.
Students should view each fair website and the list of attending employers to determine whether to attend each individual fair; the employment world is not perfectly divided by major and college.
More on: Should I go? How to prepare for a job/career fair.
SEPTEMBER |
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| What / when / where | Sponsor / Contact | Recruiting of / for: |
Virginia Tech Student Employment Job Fair |
Sponsor: |
Campus jobs, internships and graduate assistant positions |
2nd Annual Washington Mystics/Verizon Center Sports and Entertainment Career Fair |
Sponsor: |
Full- and part-time, seasonal, internships. Meet with industry executives from public relations, sales, business development, marketing and more. |
Computer Science Resources Consortium Career Reception |
Sponsor: |
Computer Science majors, including undergraduate and graduate students |
Engineering
Expo |
Sponsor: |
Permanent positions, internships & co-ops. |
Siemens Building Technologies Career Fair |
Contact: |
Virginia Tech students and alumni are invited. |
CANCELLED |
Sponsor: |
These majors: Marketing, management, information technology,
industrial design,
architecture,
building construction,
all engineering majors,
biological systems engineering,
forestry,
wood science,
ag & applied economics, chemistry, interior design. |
Business Horizons |
Sponsor: |
Recruiting business and
related students seeking permanent positions, internships and co-ops. |
Roanoke Career and Lifestyle Fair |
Sponsor: |
College students and young adults who would like to return or locate in Roanoke; local employers, entrepreneurial orgs, and other quality of life orgs will showcase Roanoke’s professional, social and personal opportunities. |
Rackspace Career Fair |
Sponsor: |
Part-time and full-time engineers and software developers |
Electronic Systems Career Event |
Sponsor: |
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OCTOBER |
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| What / when / where | Sponsor / Contact | Recruiting of: |
Fall Focus Career Fair
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4
sponsors: |
Recruiting for permanent
positions, internships & co-ops. |
Aero Defense Test 2009 Expo Academia Day & Careers Fair
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Host: |
Virginia Tech students are invited. Free academic program targeting engineering, computer science, math, science, and technical students interested in careers in aerospace and defense industries |
University of Mary Washington Career Day |
Sponsor: |
VT students are invited and welcome to attend. |
Fall
Construction & Internship Career Fair
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Sponsor: |
All types of hires; students in building construction and engineering who are interested in a career in the construction industry. |
Fall Civil and Environmental Engineering Internship and Career Fair |
Sponsor: |
Students interested in employers dealing with civil engineering design (to include: environmental, geotechnical, land development, structural, transportation, and water resources) and construction engineering & management. |
Women for Hire Career Fair
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Sponsor: |
College students and alumnae by employers in a wide variety of fields. |
Eighth Annual NAEC China Career Fair |
Sponsor: |
Bioengineering, pharmaceuticals, finance and insurance, software development, telecommunications, machinery integration, environmental protection, renewable energy, IT, industrial processes, law and education, automobile manufacturing, city planning and construction |
Diversity
Career Day |
Sponsor: |
All students welcome. |
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NOVEMBER |
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DECEMBER |
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| What / when / where | Sponsor / Contact | Recruiting of: |
Annual Roanoke Holiday Career and Lifestyle Fair |
Sponsor: |
College students and young adults who would like to return or locate in Roanoke; local employers, entrepreneurial orgs, and other quality of life orgs will showcase Roanoke’s professional, social and personal opportunities. |
Career & job fairs
Fall 2009 fairs
Connection co-op & internship fair
Academic fairs:
Other events:
Prep help for students:
Contacts
Listed for each fair.
Complete information
Go to the event website for complete information, including attending employers, directions, and other details. You should contact the sponsor if you need further information.
Employers seeking advice
Not sure which fair to attend? See employer services and ask advice from our recruiting staff.
What if the link to the event website isn't good?
Sponsors: please notify me if your event URL changes!
Students & employers: Call or e-mail the event sponsor contact person.
Update needed?
Event sponsors who need updates to your event info listed on this page: send facts in body of e-mail (no PDFs, please), with your event as subject line, to copeland@vt.edu.
ABOUT CAREER/JOB FAIR WEBSITES TO WHICH WE PROVIDE LINKS:
Career Services does not own or maintain the websites for these
events or for their sponsors and we are not always told if event
details and web URLs change. Please place reliance on the website for the event (if one exists), and contact the event sponsor if you have questions. We provide information and links as a service to
students and employers.
Links leaving the Career Services website open in a new browser
window when you select the
link.