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Students meet
industry aboard Queen Mary
By Sarah Duffy
On-line Forty-Niner
Business students will get the chance to meet an array of industry
representatives for contacts and internships at the 31st Annual
Meet the Industries Expo held on the Queen Mary Friday.
Sponsored by the College of Business at Cal State Long Beach,
the event is $20 per person and will include a series of four
workshops starting at 9 a.m. and lasting until noon.
The job fair will begin with a luncheon at noon and will conclude
at 3:30 p.m. Students planning on attending Friday's event will
need to bring plenty of copies of their resume to pass to prospective
employers.
Companies attending the event include the FBI, Ernst & Young,
Honda, Thomas Staffing, Cintas Corporation, and Union Bank of
California.
Oron Maher, vice president of the Associated Business Students
Organization Council, which helps host the event, advised students
to arrive professionally dressed.
"Make sure you get a good night's sleep the night before,
come in there with the attitude of 'I'm going to win, I'm going
to sell myself,' and really just have that confidence and be
out there and market yourself," Maher said.
Senior human resource management major Anna Marie C. Mondero
is looking forward to the industry expo.
"When you're thinking that you're going to graduate, and
you don't even have any experience, and it's so competitive
out there, especially with the economy, I think that's the motivation
for me," Mondero said.
Job opportunities exist even in down times, said MIE corporate
relations representative Victor Dominguez.
"You've got to go out there and make it happen," Dominguez
said. "It's not going to come looking for you. So have
to go out there and look for a job. If you want a job, there's
a job out there for you, you just have to get out there and
look for it."
Even though she has a chief financial officer for a father and
an accountant for a mom, Natalie Rubinstein, a marketing and
finance major, said her parents had told her that she needs
to start networking on her own. They told her she needed an
internship.
"That's why I'm going to go out and do this [job fair],"
Rubinstein said. "I take classes at CSULB, and I get good
grades, but outside of school I feel I still don't know anything
that has to do with my major."
Rubinstein also wants hands-on experience.
"So I'm going to go and see what they have to see and hopefully
get some business cards and maybe get an internship in the fall,"
Rubinstein said.
Senior marketing major Vanessa Ruiz will also attend and wants
an internship that would let her travel.
"I want them to offer me something fun," Ruiz said.
Computer programs are very easy for her too.
"I mastered a lot of programs when I was younger, just
because my mom had four computers in our house, one for each
of us," Ruiz said. |
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