Job fair

A career fair is an event that you want to establish contact between school leavers, students, graduates, young professionals and job seekers on the one hand and companies from business, government, research and academia on the other side. The duration of career fairs is usually limited to one to two days. Often they are organized at regular intervals.

Career Fairs may have a different orientation, but it is used even by providers not always be separated society: There are professional or career fairs, and choice of study fairs ( often such fairs are also colloquially Abi fairs called ), Master fairs, company contact fairs and job fairs.

Implementation

The fairs are organized by universities, professional service providers and the industry and commerce. Responsible Draw students as organizers, they take over the organization of the exhibition often volunteer and detached from the university. As organizers or supporters also often occur Student consultancies or organizations such as AIESEC, IAESTE, bonding- studenteninitiative or btS. However, some universities also hire a professional company with the organization or organizing a highly cross-school fair ( eg in Hamburg: Hamburg University, the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and the Technical University of Hamburg - Harburg).

Venue are often universities themselves, but also congress and exhibition halls.

Program offer

Informative articles of the various exhibitors ( companies, universities, professional associations, consulting organizations)
Individual meetings with various companies at the booth
Lectures of universities and companies on current and relevant topics (such as student finance or application)
Discussions
Interviews with exhibition sponsors and experts
Thematically related prize competitions and raffles
Workshops and Assessment Course
To increase the entertainment value of the framework program of the fair
Stand with employment offers of exhibitors
Help in optimizing the application documents ( often well in advance of the fair)

Objectives and weighting

The goal of a career fair is a professional network to build and expand. Students of the last two grades, students, graduates, young professionals and professionals will find this place via brochures and online information to talk directly to the contact ( forming ) companies and universities. The contact with interlocutors can then be established via email and social networks. Ideally arises between exhibitors and visitors a positive climate, so that there is a subsequent application with reference to the fair contact.

Berufs-/Berufswahlmessen and choice of study measuring

Professional or career fairs, and student choice fairs are aimed at high school students, high school graduates, young professionals, college dropouts, and parents. Colloquially such fairs are also called Abi fairs. Comprehensive information on existing professions, occupations and training opportunities is in the foreground. As parents and teachers in the growing field of professional titles, often can not keep track of these fairs have the goal to present other ways into work about classical professions beyond. So should be closed using the exhibitors gaps in services by teachers and parents. The age of the visitors of this Measure is 14 to 24 years.

Master Fairs

With the progressive realization of the reforms that have been launched by the Bologna process, is also a growing number of master's fairs. They are intended for undergraduate students and graduates who want to connect a master's program. Here mainly asked from national and international universities. Companies make dar. overlooking dual master's degree programs, but also as an employer for Bachelor graduates

Company Contact Exhibitions

Company contact fairs are aimed at graduates with a first closed or higher qualified higher education. Here, the contact between graduates with potential employers is a priority. You have successfully attained a bachelor's, master's, diploma or Master's degree, which is why it comes to this career fairs, to imagine and to explore whether cooperation for both partners is attractive to the prospective employer. Visitors are their training path according to their mid-twenties and older.

Job Fairs

Job fairs provide an overarching variant is: They offer both graduates and young professionals, young professionals and experienced unemployed the opportunity to come directly in contact with recruiters. It is mainly about the contact with potential employers and recruiters. The age range of visitors is the career fair is greatest in this species.

Exhibition preparation

Often by the organizers publish a fair catalog, which now often appears online in advance. It can be found on the greeting words of organizers and patrons addition, hall and stand plans, profiles of the exhibiting universities and businesses and, where appropriate, a program of events. Just to prepare for career and study choice fairs is advance a career choice test, either by the organizers themselves ( such as the free choice of profession test of entry ) or from other providers, such as the Federal Employment Agency ( such as the free abi power test), is offered. The discussions at the booth last between 10 and 30 minutes. When it comes to a career fair with workshops and Assessment Program, the period may be extended on one to three hours.