Employment Fair Event in AUC BY: Farah Omar &Nourhan Wael
The employment fair event has been taking place since the year 1986. The American university in Cairo was the first university that introduced the employment fair event in the Middle East. The caps office which is the Career Advising and Placement Services is responsible to organize this twice a year one day event. This Caps office spreads out information booklets that include the names of all the participating companies with their vacant job positions before the event’s initiation. The event’s aim is to acquaint graduate students with the possible career life they are tending to take. It also builds up relationships between those students and the corporate world. Furthermore, it’s about presenting our graduate students’ skills and qualifications to the participating companies which are recruiting for certain employees. Thus we can say it’s a mutual event where both parties are satisfied. From the companies’ side, they can find their employer’s needs in our students. While from the students’ side, they are offered unexpected great highly paid jobs, and this of course is also beneficial for the university as it reflects its image on its well qualified students.
Companies are encouraged to participate in the employment fair event to observe the highly qualified graduates and maybe they would find their needs in one of them. Companies represent themselves through conducting booths where one of their representatives is responsible to introduce the companies’ vision on campus. This booth opens a way towards marketing the company’s name and establishes a productive relationship among our AUC community. For instance, this direct contact with the students would allow them to represent their image more clearly than through advertisements. They also get to spread their presence through handing out flyers and descriptive brochures. Diversified companies from all career fields join our event to open wide opportunities for all our students of different majors, such as architects, economists, accountants, physicians…etc. Some examples of the companies who have shared in the last couple of years are: Credit Agricole Egypt S.A.E, Halliburton, HSBC bank of Egypt, Henkel, Amid East, Vodafone, Bavarian Auto Group (BAG), and Unilever Mashreq.
As companies are profited from this fair, students as well gain advantages. Students get to know and perceive the companies’ various offers and maybe they would relief some uncertainties and establish particular concepts about their type of work. In addition, since companies specify their unoccupied job positions, students would be able to plan ahead and choose the most suitable company they feel emotionally and logically inclined to. Usually undergraduate students are not very familiar with the future job they will be facing; hence through this fair students become acquainted with the kind of work awaited for them in the future. Eventually, interested students in the alumni would present themselves to the companies’ representatives and hopefully some of them get the chance to be hired.
Furthermore, benefits come along this event to the university as well as to students and participating companies. As students are hired in brand named companies, this markets for the university’s figure, and enhances its reputation as well. That’s why AUC is thoughtful for this event in particular as it’s proud to show and display its most qualified graduate students to the best international and local companies in Egypt. And remember that the main objectives for every university including ours are to raise highly qualified and distinctive graduates that would strongly compete in the actual working life. So what do you think of our event?!
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=employment+fair+event+in+AUC&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Here you can see the high spirit and motivation the company’s representatives give.
http://www.caps.aucegypt.edu/employmentfair/photos/Fair.html
These pictures emphasize exactly what the event is trying to conduct by allowing students and companies to interact greatly with one another.
"Fall 09 Employment Fair." The American University in Cairo, Career Advising and
Placement Services. 19 Oct 2009
http://www.caps.aucegypt.edu/employmentfair/employmentfair_history.html.
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