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Get your resume ready; Fanshawe's Career Fair and Summer Job Fair is an exceptional opportunity to meet prospective employers.

Fanshawe’s annual Career Fair and Summer Job Fair is approaching fast. Employers will be attending the career fair to meet students face to face. This event will give students an opportunity to network with and give resumes to prospective employers, while learning more about the fields that they are interested in.

The event will be held Feb. 10 between 10 a.m and 2 p.m in Fanshawe’s J-gym. This event is open to students of every program, and even faculty members.

Preparation is the key to success and the Career Services Office, at room D1063, will be holding workshops to help students every day until Feb. 9. The workshops will be specially catered to the career fair for those who wish to attend. At the workshops, students will have the opportunity to speak with career consultants, and have professional headshots taken. Students will also be given advice on how to write resumes and cover letters, and how to implement proper interview techniques.

Lisa Rusal, assistant manager at Career, Co-op and Community Employment Services at Fanshawe, emphasizes that a key component to preparing successfully is to ensure your first impression is a good one.

“If you want to catch the attention of employers at the career fair, make sure you come looking your finest,” Rusal said.

Support services officer in Fanshawe’s Employment and Student Entrepreneurial Services Mujgan Genc is spearheading the event and has confirmed that at least 71 employers will be attending.

Some of the high profile employers whose attendance is confirmed are TD Bank, City of London and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Employers from various industry sectors such as information technology, hospitality and real estate will also populate the event.

The career services website provides a full list of employers who will be attending the Career Fair and Summer Job Fair on Feb. 10, along with brief company profiles, for students who wish to tailor their resumes and cover letters to specific jobs or industries.

Fanshawe has a high success rate of graduate employment, ranking among the highest in the province at 87.5 per cent according to the 2014-2015 Key Performance Indicators published by Colleges Ontario. Not only are Fanshawe students getting hired, but they’re also impressing employers. In the same report, 87.5 per cent of employers who hired Fanshawe graduates considered themselves “very satisfied”.

“[Prospective employers] are hiring [Fanshawe] students, and they are keeping them, and they are coming here because they really want to hire Fanshawe students,” Genc said.

Rusal encourages students to come out no matter what their interests or studies.

“If you think your sector isn’t well represented, you don’t know where your next job is going to come from, you meet someone from TD Bank whose husband is the HR hiring manager for the firm you really want to get connected with… you don’t know who knows who,” Rusal said.

There will be no registration for the students wishing to attend the career fair, however they will need to bring their student card, resumes and cover letters in order to receive the full benefits of the event.

To learn more, and for a full list of employers attending the Career Fair and Summer Job Fair on Feb. 10 be sure to check out fanshawec.ca/careerservices.