Making The Most Out Of A Job Fair

The epic chase of landing yourself in the perfect job begins as soon as one has barely begun with an MBA. Picking up corporate communication skills, polishing your personality traits and gaining the skills required to ace interviews begin tormenting fresher graduates as soon as they enrol in the course. And soon after the series of interviews and recruitment tests begin, of which job fairs are an integral part. An average candidate appears for some 5 to 10 interviews before signing up that dream employment catalogue.

However, the adage “Practice makes a man perfect” is not quite true in case of interviews; at least not unless one realizes the key to crack it. Candidates at even the top MBA colleges in India are caught in conundrums of clearing an interview. The interviewers are picky as ever and since recession has constantly been playing peekaboo, the competition here is more now. So, making the most out of these job fairs is quite critical.

Well, first you need to zero down on the kind of jobs you are looking at. For each different role your CV should ideally be specifically edited, however, that’s not possible at a job fair so you need to low own on a broad job role at least, advices a professor at India’s top business school.

Second, create a mental sketch out that summarizes your CV in a few words so that you can give an impressive summary to HR executives that will immediately attach weight to your CV. This will not only introduce you as someone who is efficient and pays attention to detail while it will also fulfil the simple cause of easing out the work for the interviewer to skim through all those pages.

Third, go through the invite and the website beforehand as it may contain a brief synopsis of the event and the employers who will be participating. Needless to say, how priceless that information can be for you.