Prepare For A Career Fair To Impress Employers Common Mistakes Students Make At Career Fairs Your Self-introduction Connecting The Dots On Resumes Practice Activity: “Meeting A Career Fair Employer”

2. International Students Job Search
Seminar
Prepare for
Competitively
Julia Montier-Ball, MEd, CI/IDT, MGR. International Student Services, Adjunct Instructor 2017-2018

3. AGENDA In Module I. You will find what it takes to be extra prepared for
Career Fairs, and learn the techniques that will make it most
productive for you!
• Prepare For A Career Fair To Impress Employers
• Common Mistakes Students Make At Career Fairs
• Your Self-introduction
• Connecting The Dots On Resumes
• Practice Activity: “Meeting A Career Fair Employer”

4. COOPERATIVE
EDUCATION
Q. How should
students
prepare to TALK
to employers at
career fairs?
Concepts of
Skills

5. Concepts of Skills
Career fair employers expect international
students to demonstrate:
• Applied Knowledge
• Effective Relationships
• Workplace & Soft Skills
• Company Research
• Confident Approach
• Readable Resume
• Concise & Clear
• Self-introduction

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COMMON MISTAKES:
• Knowing nothing about the company
• Speaking too fast, or too long
• Not dressed appropriately
• Not having an excellent resume
• Not presenting a firm handshake with confidence
• Not having good eye contact, looking down
• Not making a good first impression

8. ACADEMIC
INTERNSHIPS
Watch an
example
video
(8:29)
What 4 concepts
are introduced?
(write out answers on
Module I. Discussion Board)
“How to Prepare for a Career Fair and Impress Employers”

9. WAYS TO IMPRESS EMPLOYERS
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• Research each organization on your target list
• Ask about the open position & job responsibilities
• Relate to your coop expectations
• Ask questions about the hiring process
• Dress appropriately in business attire
• Good firm handshake & enthusiastic self-
introduction

10. COOPERATIVE
EDUCATION
Confident
Skills

11. BEST SELF-INTRODUCTIONS
Have for meeting companies on
your target list
Which have a high potential for hiring
International students?
• DO your research on the company list.
• Plan out your goal for talking to
to each company
Link to companies
attending the
career fair

12. Begins with a positive
Greet employers with...
• A friendly Smile
• Eye contact
• Greet w/their first name “Hi, John...”
• A Firm handshake (unless prohibited by religion/culture)
• End with a leading question
Your SELF-INTRODUCTION

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CONFIDENTLY GREET EMPLOYERSShould be
Don’t ramble about personal
life, tell where you are from...do tell them
• Who are you?
• Class, major, clubs, honors?
• Why their company?
• What kind of work you are looking for?
Your SELF-INTRODUCTION

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CONFIDENTLY GREET EMPLOYERSIs a of your achievements
Don’t hesitate to emphasize your strengths...
• Relevant work skills
• Significant school projects
• How working there meets your goals
• Why you are a strong candidate for the job
Your SELF-INTRODUCTION

15. Watch this
example:
Self-introduction
Video (begin at min.
6:34 thru 6:59)
What did she do
well? What didn’t
she do? (write out
answers on Module I.
Discussion Board)
“How to Prepare for a Career Fair and Impress Employers”

16. First Impressions are
Lasting Impressions
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
Find more on
this topic in
Module III.
• Head up, stand tall, eyes front
• Nice smile, Step up to table –
but not too close
• Look at their name tag, greet
employer by his/her first
name with a good handshake
• Then confidently introduce
yourself.
• See example:
“Hi Sandy, I’m a young professional mechanical engineer
that would like to work as your next Hardware Test
Engineering coop hired from UC! I can generate reports…”

17. Practice
Activity:
“Meet an
employer
at a career
fair”
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
30 second Self-introduction Review:
• Walk up to greet employer using their
first name
• Mention position of interest
• “I’m…” (use your US name or nickname)
• a great candidate for the (position)
because...”
• Emphasize 2-3 RELEVANT points
• Ask 2 leading questions - to get a response
(role play with a friend and record; upload
to your computer on Module I. Discussion
Board)

18. COOPERATIVE
EDUCATION
Connecting
on Resumes

19. IMPROVE CAREER FAIR RESUMES:
My skills &
work
experience
Action verbs
Personal
qualities
“Quantify
& Qualify”
your skills & experience
To improve your
career fair
resume, see next
2 slides on how
to:
- use Action Verbs
- Quantify &
Qualify skills
- add Personal
Qualities

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Quantify Verbs
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Qualify Nouns
• Tested five engines
Examples of Action Verbs for Resumes:

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Budget Display Hire Motivate Recapture Supply
Build Distribute Honor Navigate Receive Support
Calculate Diversify Hypothesize Negotiate Recognize Surpass
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Chart Draft Implement
Clarify Drive Import
Classify Earn Improve
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Conserve Enlist Interpret
Consolidate Ensure Interview
Construct Establish Introduce
Consult Estimate Invent
Continue Evaluate Inventory
Contract Examine Investigate
Normalize
Observe
Obtain
Offer
Officiate
Operate
Orchestrate
Organize
Orient
Originate
Outsource
Overcome
Oversee
Participate
Perceive
Perfect
Perform
Persuade
Pilot
Pinpoint
Pioneer
Plan
Position
Predict
Reconcile Systematize
Record Tabulate
Recruit Target
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Qualify Nouns
• Completed a 10 page report with
accuracy
• Took on a challenging leadership
role
Examples of Personal Qualities for Resumes

22. Don’t be shy!
Improve your career fair resume
by
Quantifying skills utilized &
outcomes of your work...
• “Organized a product
analysis presentation over 3-
weeks that influenced design
changes.”

23. Show employability
skills
Include how you applied
classroom knowledge and
experience to coop work
activities…
• “Utilized Matlab and critical
thinking skills to test user
interfaces.”

24. Relate ability to
solve problems
Give an example…
• “Built a model within a tight
timeframe; met efficiency
criteria; awarded first place
in the competition.”

25. Show value in
hiring foreign
workersGive examples of Good English
and communication skills...
• Collaborated with other
coops to research polymer-
based nanofibers to improve
gauze pads

26. What sets you
apart?
Initiative to get additional
hands-on/field experience...
• Spent extra time with
biomedical scientists in a
hospital cancer lab

27. Congratulations! You have almost completed the Module I.
To complete, write post your answers to these questions in the Module I. Discussion Board on Bb.
MODULE I. Activity: Review Questions*
1. What are some ways you can impress employers at a career fair?
2. What are some desired employability skills?
3. What goes on a resume to connect the dots for employers?
4. What should you practice to prepare for the career fair?
See next two slides:
- How to earn your
Certificate of Attendance
- Upcoming seminar and
activities schedule

28. After Seminars: Resume Critiques
Appointments: 556-3471 or montiej@ucmail.uc.edu
Go to Blackboard Organization to access PPTs, news, quizzes & resources!
To receive your Certificate of Attendance:
• Attend at least 6 Seminars + 1 activity*
• Or combine completed Modules on Bb + attending Seminars + 2 activities*
• *Activities include: a resume critique, networking event, self-intro video,
mock interview, job search lab, or a follow-up appointment.

29. MOD I.
repeats:
Prepare for the Fair
Seminar
1pm-2pm
Tues. Aug 29
Wed. Aug. 30
Tues. Sept. 5
Wed. Sept. 6
Activities:
Resume Critiques
2pm-3pm
Aug 30 Sept. 7
Sept. 1 Sept. 8
Sept. 5
MOD II.
repeats:
Write Competitive
Resumes
Seminar
1pm-2pm
Fri. Sept. 1
Thur. Sept. 7
Fri. Sept. 8
Activities:
Tailgate Party &
Football Game
4:30-6:30
Aug. 31
MOD III.
repeats:
Perfect Your
Self-Introduction
Seminar
1pm-2pm
Mon. Sept. 11
Tues . Sept. 12
Activities:
Self- Introduction
Practice & Video
Recording
2pm-4pm
Mon. Sept. 11
Tues . Sept. 12
Module I-III Seminar Schedule:
See Blackboard Organization for full schedule, access Modules, Activity details, and more!
Repeating sessions & Activities