Students looking for jobs and employers looking for employees met face-to-face at a career fair on Wednesday.
Ball State held their annual Fall Career Fair in Worthern Arena. Attending the event were more than 100 employers, representing more than 60 different degrees, looking to interview Ball State students.
Each year, Ball State holds three job fairs including the Fall Career Fair, Cardinal Job Fair in February and Teacher Fair on April 30 and May 1.
For some, the Fall Career Fair was the first step in looking for a career.
“I went last year to check it out, but this year I’m really hitting the tables,” Jessica Hill, a junior acounting major, said.
Jerome Johnson, director of Human Resources for Youth Opportunity Center Incorporated, said that the career fairs are a good bang for your advertising dollar when it comes to finding future employees.
When visiting Ball State, Johnson mentioned that he saw a tremendous increase in the quality of applicants in comparison to other fairs that he visits.
Jaime Fedeler, a senior actuarial science major, said the fair was beneficial to him.
“There were 2 or 3 that seemed interested,” said Jaime Fedeler, a senior actuarial science major. “We had a really great turnout of both students and companies.”
A new addition to the annual Fall Career Fair was the separate actuarial science area, which opened at 11 a.m., an hour before the rest of the fair.
Kelly Bielak, a current employee of Lincoln Financial Group and a Ball State graduate, said the early opening for actuarial science majors was busy.
Jon Quigley of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., was among one of the actuarial science tables that was available early.
Quigley mentioned that although they were there early, and their table was separated from many of the other related tables and so their turnout was not what they had hoped for that hour.
However, Eryn Collins, a senior economics and sociology major, mentioned that this year the fair seemed much more organized and was easier to navigate.
