{"id":11570,"date":"2016-01-20T06:31:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11570"},"modified":"2016-01-19T10:35:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:35:59","slug":"camosun-career-fair-offers-more-for-business-students-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/01\/20\/camosun-career-fair-offers-more-for-business-students-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Career Fair offers more for business students this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun College is hosting its annual Career Fair from 10 am to 2 pm on Thursday, January 28, and this year\u2019s event will be offering something new for the college\u2019s students. Camosun College marketing officer Sally Coates has been working hard to include companies who may be looking for those who are taking business classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been going for 10 years and it\u2019s always been just a trades and technologies career fair,\u201d says Coates. \u201cBut every time the companies have come they\u2019ve always wanted business students as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year, business students, alongside Camosun\u2019s trade and tech students, will be able to meet potential employers and find out about potential careers after graduation. The turnout for previous events has always been impressive, says Coates, but this year she is expecting more students than ever.<\/p>\n

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Camosun students check out the booths from various employers at last year\u2019s Career Fair (photo by Camosun College A\/V Services).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cLast year we had almost 2,000 students,\u201d she says. \u201cBut with business, I would expect to be getting around 3,000 students.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the added opportunities for business students, this will be a large event for Camosun, as it will be the first major event held in the new Trades Education and Innovation Complex at the Interurban campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are really excited,\u201d says Coates, \u201cabout showing off the space to the students and to the employers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coates has made an effort to include many local companies, but the event also draws organizations in from Colorado to Lethbridge. The majority of companies who attend are small businesses and value the training that Camosun students receive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe small tech companies don\u2019t have time to have fluff and bureaucracy, so the students they hire can\u2019t be a one-dimensional person, and Camosun\u2019s education really, really emphasizes applied knowledge and a can-do attitude,\u201d says Coates. \u201cA lot of the tech companies go to Camosun.\u201d<\/p>\n

The career fair isn\u2019t just about finding a job, Coates says, and over the years she has seen more than one student invigorated and inspired by the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen students actually completely change their focus from what they were studying to something else,\u201d she says, \u201cor it energizes them to go right into it even more, and I think both are equally valid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Career fairs in general can be useful and informative, and an excellent way to get a foot in an employer\u2019s door, but that requires a skill set people haven\u2019t necessarily learned. To help students get the most out of the event, Camosun has set up two workshops.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are having two sessions about how to work a career fair, what exactly they should be doing when they go to career fairs, and for students to learn how to effectively market their skills, experience, and knowledge to potential employers,\u201d says Coates. \u201cWe teach them how to be the student that the employer remembers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Go to camosun.ca\/cese for information on the career fair and the workshops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camosun College is hosting its annual Career Fair from 10 am to 2 pm on Thursday, January 28, and this year\u2019s event will be offering something new for the college\u2019s students. Camosun College marketing officer Sally Coates has been working hard to include companies who may be looking for those who are taking business classes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-january-20-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11572,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570\/revisions\/11572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}