We attended our first job fair at Greater Southern Tier BOCES Coopers Campus this week and were pleased to see a new crowd of student faces and potential future hires!
This event offered local businesses like ours the opportunity to meet and interview prospective graduates within their trade areas at BOCES. It also allowed students the opportunity to practice their job-seeking skills through simulated interviews while learning about our region’s employers and their expectations.
As part of the program, we were able to do mock interviews with and talk to the students about their experience at BOCES. We enjoyed learning about their trades, projects, and what their plans were after graduation. We even threw in some education about automotive recycling. Interviews were about 10 minutes long–students presented a prepared resume and we asked realistic interview questions and discussed employment expectations, hiring procedures, and business culture.
Thank you to GST BOCES for including us in this event and to all of the students who prepared to speak with us.
Check out what GST BOCES can offer you at https://www.gstboces.org/.