Graduate Jobs Fair Tomorrow

Hibbeler

There is a graduate jobs fair on in the Bailey Allen Hall tomorrow. I'm just wondering did anyone go to it last year and did you get anything out of it?

I will have to take time off tomorrow if I am to call down to it and I'm just wondering if it would be worth my while? I'm a final year engineer btw.

http://www.nuigalway.ie/careers/students/student_RF.html

yer man!

Hibbeler wrote: »

There is a graduate jobs fair on in the Bailey Allen Hall tomorrow. I'm just wondering did anyone go to it last year and did you get anything out of it?

I will have to take time off tomorrow if I am to call down to it and I'm just wondering if it would be worth my while? I'm a final year engineer btw.

http://www.nuigalway.ie/careers/students/student_RF.html

I went last year and despite there being very few science companies there, one company was interested in giving me a placement for my course (my course doesn't have compulsory placement). It is quite good.

joeKel73

It is worth going to, I know a lot of people who have got interviews and jobs from it. The type of companies varies depending which sector is doing well.

Hibbeler

Thanks, I think I will head over after my next lecture, be no harm anyway.

Do you if your friends printed off CVs etc. and handed them out?

Raging_Ninja

Hibbeler wrote: »

Thanks, I think I will head over after my next lecture, be no harm anyway.

Do you if your friends printed off CVs etc. and handed them out?

Bring CVs, they may get you an interview straight off.

Ficheall

I was advised to do a HDip with something in Java to make sure I'd actually be interested in doing the work as they were "looking for someone who'd be planning to stay for about 10 years".
A mathematics Phd based on 4 years of C programming and a degree in Financial Maths is apparently not of much use to a company who "develops software for the finance industry".

joeKel73

Yeah i've a masters in software design & development but unfortunately we didn't cover Java - the same guys told me to do a 1 year course.

Another company though said just to do a crash course myself and if possible sign up for one of the Oracle certs. I might run through thenewboston's Java video tutorials.

joeKel73

For a graduate fair, a lot of the companies seemed to be there only to fill undergraduate internships. Got a few good leads though.

RolandIRL

The amount of accounting/finance/business firms there was annoying. Very few actually in the area of science, y'know what my degree is in :rolleyes:

Love how the college keeps saying "you can do anything with a science degree" yet year after year, gets the same companies in for these grad fairs, and some of the ones I was interested in told me my degree was useless and I'd have to do a postgrad like yours, Joe, to even be considered.

Did get one or two possibilities so wasn't a complete waste of time. And the free stuff was a bonus too.

Hibbeler

Agree with what Roland said about the finance companies, there was some amount of them. From my point of view the engineering companies that were there were mostly on the medical device side of things, and that's not really what I'm interested in but wouldn't totally dismiss them. Though I did get a good response from the companies I did visit.

Red_Wake

Ficheall wrote: »

I was advised to do a HDip with something in Java to make sure I'd actually be interested in doing the work as they were "looking for someone who'd be planning to stay for about 10 years".
A mathematics Phd based on 4 years of C programming and a degree in Financial Maths is apparently not of much use to a company who "develops software for the finance industry".

Which company was this?

Ficheall

Can't remember. They were in the corner directly opposite when you go in the main door. They had a big greenish background. Looking at the list of company names present it may have been Fidelity Investments...

joeKel73

Yeah it was Fidelity - very helpful guys on the desk, spent a good time looking over my CV and gave good advice.

TheCosmicFrog

I missed this Grad Fair due to other commitments. Does anyone know if there's another one coming up at any stage? Even if it's not in NUIG.

snubbleste

Up outta bed!
There's one on now
http://www.skillnets.ie/events/skillnets-jobs-fair

TheCosmicFrog

snubbleste wrote: »

Up outta bed!
There's one on now
http://www.skillnets.ie/events/skillnets-jobs-fair

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