I'm back from the Engineering Career Fair at Texas A&M. We met some great candidates. They did a great job of organizing this event (except for running out of Diet Coke for a while in the afternoon). It's definitely nice to be back home though. They even give free massages to the recruiters and provide cookies as an afternoon snack. The only down side to the whole event was too much barbeque; both meals that they provided were barbeque. LOL! I'm all barbequed out!
I was surprised that only one candidate that I talked to said that he was especially interested in working for us because we are 100% employee owned. I was expecting more candidates to comment on that, since it's so exciting to work for such a company. It's so cool to own stock in a successful, growing company that's been around since 1918! It's also sort of funny that most people who see our company name assume we are based in Austin. You should never assume. My company is based in Houston. It's also very cool to be a Houstonian.
Some pictures of our booth at the event are attached. Obviously, I'm a horrible photographer (I won't quit my day job). It doesn't help that these were taken with a cell phone. This was my first time including pictures in a blog, and it's not as easy as you might think.
Two weeks from now, I'll be attending the University of Houston Engineering Career Fair and University of Texas Engineering Expo. Hopefully those will be as well run (but less barbeque).
Happy recruiting or job hunting.
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