UTEP To Have Job Fair Tuesday
About 50 employers who represent government and education agencies and private businesses will meet with students from The University of Texas at El Paso at the Career Connections fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, in Union Building East.
Recent UTEP graduates and spring graduation candidates are encouraged to attend the fair. Companies that need engineers, marketers, retailers, and teachers among others will attend. Some may conduct on-site interviews.
This is a better time for job seekers around the country, but especially in El Paso, according to March 15, 2011, story in Forbes magazine. The article quotes a survey by Manpower, an employment services firm, which rated the Sun City tied for fourth best to find a job this spring.
Career Connections is the first of three job fairs at the University in the next few weeks. Also scheduled are the Internship and Part-time Job Fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, in Union Building East, and the Teacher Job Fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 15, in the Don Haskins Center.
“Employers see value in UTEP students,” said Betsy Castro-Duarte, associate director at the University Career Center and an event coordinator. “Many of them have previous work experience and they have reputations of go-getters. Having a large bilingual-bicultural pool of applicants is a given.”
Job seekers can find helpful tips and lists of employers who will attend the Career Connections at the career center’s website, www.sa.utep.edu/careers. The information would especially help first-generation college students who may not know how to navigate a career fair in a professional manner.
This job fair was rescheduled from early February because of a severe winter storm.
Source: UTEP
