You marked your calendar for the career fair coming up next week. You polished your resumé, you did your homework on the companies that are going to be there, practiced your elevator pitch, and you know your strengths just in case any questions come up.

Great start. Finally, you need to shift your attention to the first impression. The way you come across in that first meeting can set the standard of how someone views all of your work, for better or worse. Make sure your first impression will leave feelings of professionalism and preparedness with any future connection.

Here at Career Fair Plus, we get a lot of satisfaction from listening to our customers and providing career fair technology solutions that solve real problems. Our entire service is built around saving career fair organizers time while improving outcomes for their job seekers. A great example is our Booth Assignment Tool. Customers tell it us saves them anywhere from 3 hours to 3 days worth of work when planning their fair. The biggest benefits of the Booth Assignment Tool are:

With the oldest people of Generation Z being born in 1995, it’s time for our youngest generation to hit the job market. Finishing up college and truly being out on your own can be scary, and trying to find a job on top of that isn’t easy. The entry-level job market is a hard one to break into, so we are lending a hand with tips on how you can land your first job.

When you are on the job hunt, it’s important to have an interview look in mind for the career you’re going after. Whether you’re applying to an entry-level position or you’re looking to become CEO, there’s a lot of tips to take into consideration if you want to be seen as a serious candidate from the moment you walk in the door.

Many Career Fair Plus customers have found our flexibility and customization to be invaluable and we wanted to share one of the ways that we let schools have it their way. Every school and organization is different with students that have unique needs. Career Services Offices often want to convey information that's specific to their fairs and relevant to their students which can be difficult in a "one size fits all" platform. Enter Career Fair Plus and supplemental imports! All of our customers that also use Handshake, know that we can use Direct Connect to pull in relevant fair data. What only a few also know is that we can import supplemental data that schools collect through survey questions as a part of employer registration. Handshake allows CSOs to collect custom data, but does not provide a way to easily share that data with students. Career Fair Plus makes it easy to setup custom fields and filters for many types of data. Four of the most common examples and why they are important are below.