Does your school host an Intern Recruiting Fair?

[pharm B]

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My school is throwing its annual recruiting fair where students get to meet some of the local companies. Not surprisingly, the biggest show has been from retail.

Do most other schools have this same kind of fair? What kind of opportunities outside of the norm have you seen presented?

 

[owlegrad]

My school is throwing its annual recruiting fair where students get to meet some of the local companies. Not surprisingly, the biggest show has been from retail.

Do most other schools have this same kind of fair? What kind of opportunities outside of the norm have you seen presented?

Here we always have retail (national and local chains), local hospitals, and the armed forces. If anyone else shows up I haven't noticed their booth(s). This year fewer employers were interviewing for internships though and accordingly not as many students attended (as far as I could tell). Free lunch is always nice in my book, not sure why more people didn't come out.

 

[pharm B]

I was surprised that the Public Health Service didn't have a booth, since the Navy did. Maybe since fewer openings are available, they're just not showing up, like you said.

 

[rxlea]

Yes- no hospitals came this year- and no one was hiring. There are no jobs.

 

[bacillus1]

No, not an intern recruiting fair. We do have a career fair and some companies do recruit interns there. Never looked at whether retail chains recruit there, but I would imagine they do. Signed up for a hospital's "waiting list" for recruitment a year ago, they never contacted me. Names seem to generally get lost at these recruitment events.

In general though, I think the intern job market here is better than the pharmacist job market, since intern turnover is so high (for obvious reasons). My friend who's a pharmacist told me to find him an intern in November, still haven't found him one (though granted he had strict specifications on what he wants in an intern).

 

[Clavulanic]

Kind of. They had a social with the companies for us and then set up an interview date where you can interview with several of them on campus around the same time.

It's mostly retail though, only 1 or 2 companies weren't retail and they only had a few spots.

 

[Sparda29]

Yeah, they are gonna have a career fair on April 1st for Retail and Public Health and April 8th for Hospitals/Specialties.

Professional dress is a no-brainer, but for a pharmacy career fair, do you wear a suit or do you replace the suit jacket with a white coat? (I prefer to wear a white coat.)

 

[fauxden]

I wouldnt wear a white coat probably. They always tell us go professional. We had ours last semester and I think we have something coming up this semester. It's rather pointless tho- since not a single entity was hiring.

 

[pharm B]

I wore a suit coat, and none of our interviewers showed up in white coats, so it seemed appropriate.

 

[bacillus1]

Here, since there are too many students, the process for a hospital usually is:
1.Apply
2.3 weeks to a month goes by, you call hospital.
3. Finally hunt down DOP. He has not received your resume
4. Eventually he reviews it, sets up an interview.
5. Interview
6. Follow up in a month or so. Nowadays a lot of them say they can't pay you so they're not hiring now.
7. Half a year later, they call back with a job offer. By this time you can't take a job with them anymore.

Apparently this timeframe is rather common here. Is it the same everywhere else?