How to stand out at a Job Fair and ask smart questions.

Kicking around the idea of going to NGPA this year, but as much as I'd love to hang out and commit atrocities against my liver (and may do so), I still need to know what day(s) one needs to be in their interview suit with resumes in hand, a song on their lips, and a good story about why they should pick me pick me! Like I'm assuming the 7th-8th? Also, is there a list of attending airlines? In my old age the list of places-I-would-leave-for has shrunk, wondering how many of them will be there. Thank you and I'll take my answer off the air.
 
My advice about job fairs. Have your “elevator pitch”. Be able to tell someone who you are, what you’re after and make it “actionable”.
 
Kicking around the idea of going to NGPA this year, but as much as I'd love to hang out and commit atrocities against my liver (and may do so), I still need to know what day(s) one needs to be in their interview suit with resumes in hand, a song on their lips, and a good story about why they should pick me pick me! Like I'm assuming the 7th-8th? Also, is there a list of attending airlines? In my old age the list of places-I-would-leave-for has shrunk, wondering how many of them will be there. Thank you and I'll take my answer off the air.

The "Industry Expo" is the resume/suit grip and grin event
Last year UA and AA were only taking resumes and not really doing face to face stuff, but it doesn't mention anything about that this year.
The lines for UPS, FDX, SWA were all really long, I'm sure if AA/UA/DL do some face to face stuff this year the lines will even out a bit.

 
If anyone else is curious, I've discovered that the 7th is the job fair, the other days, while I'm sure very fun, are superfluous to requirements vis a vis finding yob.
 
I don't know why I thought of this, but.

Admiral Rickover, the...mercurial, shall we say, head of Naval Reactors, made a point of interviewing every officer that would be trusted with an atomic teakettle at sea. The stories are legion.

Candidate walks in and Rickover gruffly says "you have sixty seconds to piss me off."
Candidate frantically looks around the office, sees the model of USS Nautilus on the kindly old gentleman's desk. Smashes same to bits. One shard cuts Rickover and he bleeds onto his shirt.

Rickover: throws candidate out of the office, but still gives him the job.
 
Kicking around the idea of going to NGPA this year, but as much as I'd love to hang out and commit atrocities against my liver (and may do so), I still need to know what day(s) one needs to be in their interview suit with resumes in hand, a song on their lips, and a good story about why they should pick me pick me! Like I'm assuming the 7th-8th? Also, is there a list of attending airlines? In my old age the list of places-I-would-leave-for has shrunk, wondering how many of them will be there. Thank you and I'll take my answer off the air.

I'm going, got the day off and dragging two Compass and corporate friends with me. Holler!
 
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