Career Service Writing: Job fair on October 30.

      On October 30, ASU downtown campus held a fall career and internship fair for students who are looking for internship and full time job. Around 80 companies and organizations has come here to look for talents. 

      I was surprised how diverse the employees were. There were government agencies, such as state government and the City of Phoenix. There were many companies from varied industry like news, broadcasting, entertainment, estate, electricity and so on. Companies like Allstate Insurance Company, Danny's Family Companies, Yelp, Inc. were there.  Of course, there were also nonprofit organizations, such as Help International, Valley of the Sun United Way, Mayo Clinic and The Phoenix Symphony. Though there were a number of employees in the fair, as a public administration and nonprofit student I was a little disappointed to see the small number of nonprofit organizations there, which was the main reason I left the job fair early. 

       As far as I have talked with the nonprofit organizations at the fair, most of them were looking for volunteers and internship for the winter and spring semester. It seems that most of them were really well-organized nonprofit with years of history, which I think was good and beneficial for students like me who was going to step into the professional career in a few months if I could have a chance work with them when I was still at school.

       A random thing happened on the fair that I wanted to share was about my name tag. Because I was in both programs of master of public administration and nonprofit leadership and management certificate, my name tag only showed the certificate, which I think was really cool and I felt good with it!