It's the start of a new school year and with the start of Fall comes more communications classes. This semester I am venturing out of the classroom and into the field. I have taken an internship with my school's career development center and that will count as my communications class for this semester.
We just finished up putting together our school's fall career fair. As an intern I did a lot of marketing for the event. I designed flyers to hand out and hang around campus and wore a t-shirt the week of to promote the event. The interns also marketed and helped to host a Free Rita's day where we continued to market the career fair.
At the Career Fair I managed the tables when people first walked in making sure students signed up and received a list of all the employers. As a senior I went to walk around the career fair myself. However, I was disappointed in the options. Most of the companies were looking for business majors...people who were majoring in accounting, finance, marketing, etc. When I told the representatives that I was an English major, most of them just looked at me and said they were sorry they didn't have any positions suited for me.
That was somewhat disappointing but I know there are other ways to find a full time job besides a career fair. I guess it's lucky that I'm interning with the career development center.
