Fall and Spring Career Fairs

When thinking about events at Career Services, this is the obvious category. Michigan Tech's semi-annual Career Fairs are open to all Michigan Tech students (current students as well as alumni) of all majors. These "high density" recruiting days are set up as traditional recruiting fairs: tables/booths in a large space featuring company representatives. Due to the size and variety of employers/majors represented, this is often the best opportunity for employers of all industries to meet Huskies. Our Fall Career Fair, in particular, is one of the largest in the country. We bring more than 400 companies and 2,000 recruiters to meet over 4,000 students each year.

Students in line to speak to a company at a job fair.

A few items for the campus community to know about the flagship Career Fairs:

Students can search, filter, save, and follow attending employers through Handshake (more on this later).
During the Fall semester, there is a class recess from 2-4 PM.
University policy dictates that some academic activities may not fall on the same day as the Fairs.
- The policy is included in this module.
Parking across campus and at the SDC can be extremely congested.

Interview Day

"Interview Day" is designed to support employers in continuing recruitment efforts by providing structured, on-campus interview opportunities for students shortly after the Career Fair. Typically taking place the Wednesday following the fall and spring fairs, Interview Day offers both half-day and full-day interview options for employers. Career Services coordinates this effort, but it takes the involvement of many across campus to pull it off. Some of you have donated offices and welcomed companies into your spaces in order to conduct interviews: thank you so much!

"Boutique" Career Fairs and Virtual Fairs

In addition to more traditional in-person events, Career Services has started placing extra emphasis on "boutique" events (both in-person and online) to support areas that have a harder time standing out in the larger, traditional job fair setting. Over the past few years, these events have included:

Natural Resources Career Fair (CFRES focus)
Cultural Resources Management Virtual Career Fair
College of Business Career Fair
A virtual all-majors "Just in Time" (late-season) fair
Collaborating on corporate mixers for individual departments, taking place the day before the flagship fairs

These boutique events, in particular, are made possible on the strength of the collaboration between Career Services and the primary hosting department(s). Oftentimes, our office has access to breadth of employers, but not necessarily with the depth of relationships that are held by the departments. As a result, we rely heavily on departmental partners to help get the word out to companies that are heavily involved.

More events are in progress, and we are open to discussions of potential future event ideas. Let us know if you'd like to open up a conversation!