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Tonight we have the Unlock Your Future Internship fair
and networking event.
It's a collaboration between the Career Services Center
and the Banquet and Catering class over here in the Culinary
and Hospitality Center.
The students in the Banquet and Catering class
have to plan an event as a part of their class.
So we teamed up together to plan this event.
We've invited employers who are interested in hiring interns
from all the Culinary and Hospitality programs.
So students are here from Culinary Arts, Hospitality,
Baking and Pastry Arts, Travel and Tourism, Hospitality
and [INAUDIBLE] event planning.
I came to Unlock Your Future today
because I'm in my last semester of Culinary school.
I'm looking for an internship and so
I wanted to talk to all the employers that were here.
The event just feels really exciting.
All the employers are really happy to be here, really
enthusiastic.
Specifically, I was looking at the Marriott.
They offer a lot of opportunities abroad.
They have a lot of fine dining restaurants.
And the Hyatt and the [? Bidia ?] Country Club that
intrigued my interest.
The exciting part about this event
is that the students in the Banquet and Catering class
have planned and implemented virtually
every part of this Unlock Your Future event tonight.
So we have half the class is working back of the house.
We applied for positions and my role in this event
was to be head chef.
So in that I delegated positions-- jobs--
to help getting the culinary part of this event together.
The front of the house is actually
working on all the hospitality pieces-- so greeting
the employers.
They worked on what we're going to give them as a gift,
making sure that they have what they need to be successful.
It's fun I think finally like the day of being able to see
it all come together.
You're like, wow, we made something.
It's real.
So, it's really rewarding the actual day
of to see everything kind of go down
and to see your peers like when they follow your direction.
And this beautifully executed event just
goes as it was on paper is really great.
One of the things we felt was a really important
prior to this event was to prepare students
for how to be successful at a career fair, internship
fair, networking event.
So we did what we call Internship Boot Camp.
So at that event we had one of the representatives
from our Career Center come and she did about 10 minutes each
on how to network effectively-- so how to create a sales pitch,
and how to utilize and understand LinkedIn as a way
to research employers and prepare to talk to employers
and sell yourself.
One of the really fun things that we
did with the What Not to Wear workshop
is that we had six students who were in the Banquet
and Catering class who came dressed either not
appropriately or appropriately.
Button-down pressed shirt, matching tie, plain shirt,
striped tie, dark matching suit and jacket,
the shoes are even polished--
It was a really fun way to engage
the peer-to-peer learning, which is a really important part
of this event.
So that students could actually visually see
some of the common mistakes that students
make in thinking they're dressing professionally
but may be missing the mark a little bit.
On one of the other components of the Unlock
Your Future event is that we also
teamed up with one of the graphic design classes.
They worked with us to design our logo and some
of our marketing materials.
So collectively this event worked with the Career Services
Center, the Banquet and Catering class, and a graphic design
class all together to implement an event for students.
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