Student/Post-Doc Job Fair

Experience Students@SC Student/Post-Doc Job Fair

View Student/Post-Doc Job Fair Schedule

The Students@SC Program will again host the Student/Post-Doc Job Fair. The Student/Post-Doc Job Fair is open to all students and post-docs attending SC, giving them an opportunity to meet with potential employers.

This face-to-face event will be held from 10 am–3 pm, Wednesday, November 14, in rooms D163/165/170/172 in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.

SC job fair employers include research labs, academic institutions, recruiting agencies, and private industry who meet with students to discuss graduate fellowships, internships, summer jobs, co-op opportunities, graduate school assistant positions, and permanent employment.

Résumés submitted by students will be provided to organizations participating in the job fair. Students should also bring copies of their résumés to the event.

For Recruiting Organizations

Participating organizations will have the opportunity to interact with students in fields related to computer science, information systems, scientific computing, and high performance computing. Ideally, each organization will send two representatives, one from HR and one technical staff member.

Organizations registering for the job fair will receive a table seating two recruiters and access to the fair for two recruiters. Space is fairly tight, but there should be sufficient room to display a vertical banner behind your table if you have one. Each participating organization will also be given online access to student résumés.

Refreshments will be provided for recruiters throughout the day in a separate lounge.

Recruiters do not receive access to the SC Program or Exhibits.

Registration

Fee for registered exhibitors: $500
Fee for registered exhibitors after October 19: $1,000
Fee for non-exhibitors: $600
Fee for non-exhibitors after October 19: $1,250

Student/Post-Doc Job Fair Registration

For Students and Post-Docs

The Student/Post-Doc Job Fair is open to all students and post-docs attending SC. Typically, students and post-docs seeking to facilitate connections with participating organizations submit up-to-date résumés before the conference. Students and post-docs registered for SC will receive instructions on how to submit their résumés via email.

Résumé Preparation Guidelines

Consider the following guidelines while preparing your résumé:

Do:

Include your contact information, objective, and career summary
Make it simple, balanced, and well-organized
Space sections so that they are easy to distinguish
Be consistent in style, font, spacing, and indentation
Quantify accomplishments when you can
Use action verbs to describe your activities and accomplishments
Bring printed copies of your résumé to the job fair for networking

Don’t:

Use multiple fonts, underlining, boldface, or italic type
Abbreviate
Use passive statements
Include generic interests unrelated to the job you are seeking
State “references available upon request” – that will be assumed

Résumé Resources

Many websites offer free advice on creating résumés. Below are three resources that may be useful:

Example résumés for various fields
Résumé tips for job fair success
Example résumé with education but little experience

Participating Organizations

The following is a representation of recruiting organizations participating in the Student/Post-Doc Job Fair. This list will be updated continually as organizations are secured.

Listing is subject to change. Check back often!