Job fair draws students to Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Uko Akpanuko
Daily Herald
The Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Prince Albert Campus held one of its career fairs earlier in the day on Thursday at their Technical Building.
The fair allows students to have a first hand contact with prospective employers and to also broaden their knowledge of their careers.
“The turnout has been great, I have over 65 employers here from all over the Province. Luckily I didn’t have anybody cancel because of the crazy weather. It’s been super cold,” Melissa Flinn, the Student Employment Coordinator at Saskatchewan Polytechnic said. “The turnout for the employers has been wonderful and for the students, we don’t have an head count yet but it’s been a full gym this morning.
“When the employers come to the careers fairs, it’s an excellent opportunity for students to enhance their networking skills with professionals and obtain invaluable information for their job search and learn more about their potential career paths,” she added. “Sask Polytech has a 96 per cent overall graduate employment rate. The Career fairs are great opportunity for employers to meet their future employees.”
As a Saskatchewan Polytechnic student, this kind of fair gives the opportunity to connect with employers and explore career options at on-campus career fairs.
“This has been Prince Albert largest career fair at Saskatchewan Polytechnic in a long, it’s been a great day so far,” Flinn added.
At the event there were about 60 different employers that had stands and interacted with roughly 600-800 students.
For students like Benedicta Thomas, it was good chance to see the available opportunities.
“This my second job fair I’m attending at the Polytech,” she said. “It’s nice. The first one I was aware of a lot of stuff … where to apply, how to apply and then I applied and I actually got the job from this job fair.”
Thomas is a second year student studying Early Childhood Education. Since she has a good idea of where she’ll end up after graduating, Thurday’s event was about helping her daughter.
“My daughter is in grade 11 and she has interest in the armed forces so I spoke with the Army and the Navy and got information for her,” Thomas said. “Its really useful, I got cards and flyers.”
The four hour fair gives the students the assurance that they will get employed after their studies.
“It’s a good one. At the fair you always get more information and ideas about jobs, where to work and what they do,” Thomas said.
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