Purdue Career Fair

Every fall semester the College of Agriculture hosts a career fair here at Purdue. These career fairs offer a great opportunity for students of the College of Ag to explore careers with companies, find full time employment, and find summer internships for underclassmen. Each fall semester around 200 companies come to Purdue that specialize in a variety of different fields to talk to students about what they have to offer. The career fair is set up in the CoRec each year and allows for plenty of space for students and companies to intermingle and provides maps so students can easily find companies they are interested in talking to. Purdue also allows students to see all the companies coming in a online app which can give students time beforehand to prepare for interviews with companies they are looking into.

For me personally I have attended the fall semester career fair every year in my time here at Purdue. All three of my internships that I have had in the summers between classes have come from companies that I talked to at the career fair. Without this career fair it can be an intimidating task to search out jobs and internships. I believe Purdue is setting up each of their College of Ag students for success by holding these career fairs. A few tips of advice that I would give underclassmen when attending these career fairs is to 1. Make sure you bring your resume because they will always ask for it. 2. Dress accordingly for interviews and the career fair itself, I usually wore khakis and a nice dress shirt. And finally 3. Just make sure you actually go and attend the career fair, you will never regret making connections and seeing what companies have to offer but you will regret not going and missing out on the chance to secure work experience.