When you're meeting these people these recruiters let's say you
know you have the top three companies you want to meet that night when you go
up to these people make sure you look them in the eye give them a firm
handshake not not this that's no good not not this I've actually I've actually
seen that I'm like what is that becau
now I'm talking about a firm handshake not a bone-crushing handshake but just
firm and look them in the eye and say hi my name is Mike it is a pleasure to meet
you and just exude confidence not arrogant confidence I'm not talking
about a know-it-all confidence but you know fake it till you make it guys I
know it's awkward it's weird at these things I remember having the fake it you
just have to fake that confidence if need be but you know practice it in the
mirror the night before practice what you're gonna say and just go up to them
give them a firm handshake and introduce yourself avoid negative conversations at
all cost I actually had one guy tell me he had
just got out of prison
and I'm like why did you you know why do you want to tell me that it's like just
avoid negative conversations if you can you are there to meet them to express
your value to them why they might want to get to know you more why they might
might want to hire you as an intern or look at you as a potential future
candidate for their organization so you want to give you off the best image and
vibe you can and you do that by exuding confidence being prepared being well
dressed giving them a firm handshake it says a lot it says more than you think
it does to recruiters and just knowing having some knowledge regarding their
organization because you've taken time back on one of our earlier tips to look
up what their company is about and you're ready to ask them questions now
about their company so let's talk about that right now
all right okay so let's talk about some questions you might ask them and so let
me just go over a few of a few examples here so you might ask them hey what part
about your job or company do you enjoy the most you get a feel from them what
what they like about doubl renovation and see if that sounds like something
you would like as well you know how long have you been working for the company
and what made you choose this organization when you were first looking
for a job what is the typical work they like for you can you walk me through it
you can say the next question you can ask them is what is something about your
organization that most people wouldn't know when someone starts working for
your organization what are some of their first responsibilities or tasks what are
some career paths available for your organization if somebody were to start
off as an intern what aspect of your job do you find most challenging and what
aspect of your job do you enjoy the most so those are some questions I mean
obviously don't have to use these guys but those are some examples of questions
you can ask the recruiters to spark a conversation and to show how much how
you're interested in working for the organization they love questions like
that now there's a lot you might have heard that networking has a lot of
similarities to dating right obviously there's differences but
there's there are a lot of similarities of dating and networking so it's really
awkward and what here's a mistake I see people make is when you're gonna go meet
somebody you're walking up to that table or their booth where they're stationed
at at that Career Fair one of the worst things you can do is
write it you know I've see people do this all the time they do it literally
all the time it's it's frustrating but they'll walk right up to you and they'll
say hi I'm so-and-so do you have internships and it's like whoa let's
it's just like it's too forward and it's kind of like if you imagine if you had a
let's say a girl you liked or somebody who wanted to go a scout so imagine you
don't know them at all so you and you walk up to a complete stranger and say
hey my name is my name is Mike want to go out you're gonna freak him out so
that wouldn't work in a dating environment so it does that working in
the networking environment promise me that you won't just immediately go to
the first person you see and ask them hey have an internship no ask him these
other questions first get to know what their company's like ask them questions
about the organization get to see what they're like you know get to know them
before asking that question and when you're leaving when you're ending that
conversation at that point when you're about to walk away from them their table
and say hey it was really nice meeting you and I would I would love to stay in
touch with you I want you to ask them if you have a business card get their
business card from them and you can also ask hey you do you have any internships
available right now do you have some openings you foursie's some openings
coming up at your company so asking questions like that but at the end of
the conversation I'm gonna go back to the business card thing in just a second
now let me flip things around a little bit so we though we just went over some
questions that you can ask them but be prepared for them the recruiters of the
companies to ask you questions as well so here are some questions that they
might ask you while that you're while you're at the event so be prepared so
let me read off a couple to you right now
how did you hear about our company what made you interested in accounting or
finance what's your favorite accounting class and why so tell me what hobbies
you have or enjoy outside of work in school tell me about your work
experience or your background in accounting do you do you have experience
at this point or what are you doing to gain experience when are you expecting
to graduate and what are some of your plans after graduation so those are some
examples of questions the employers might ask you while you're at that event
so be prepared as so I just want to give you guys some
examples of some common questions I hear at these kind of events okay guys let's
go back and revisit that tip I just gave you about asking for their business card
before you leave the conversation you're not just I'm not asking you need to get
their business card just so you can like keep it in your pocket or like or have a
collection of you know company's business cards whoo
I mean that's not gonna do anything for you the purpose the reason I'm asking
you to ask them for their business card is so that you can go back the next day
and usually their business cards will have their email on it and I would like
you if you're interested in learning more about their organization or working
for them I would encourage you to take the email on their business card the
very next day or that week not long after that career fair that you just
attended and email them follow up with them say hey so I would say something
like hey it's Mike it was so nice to meet you the other night at
such-and-such college recruiting events I had a great time learning more about
you and your organization and then you can go on in and say hey I don't know if
I didn't get a chance to give you my resume or you know maybe it I already
gave them them my resume so I might say oh here here's another copy of my resume
just in case you need it here's some cover letters here's some letters of
references I have that speak for my you know my work ethic so please feel free
to check it out and let me please keep in I'll keep in touch
doing this shows how professional you actually are and how thoughtful you are
because you've just given them your resume again you've given them your cut
maybe you giving them your cover letter and references things like that maybe
things you couldn't give them the first night but it gives you another
opportunity to speak about why you might be able to be a good fit and help their
organization it'll gives you another chance to promote yourself and that is
the purpose of the business card my friends and plus you'll start to get to
know some of the people of their organization so following up with them
and thanking them for their time that night looks very professional and so
when they do have openings and you can ask hey if there's if they don't have if
they don't have any openings right now you can ask them in that email say hey
here's my you know here's my resume etc if let me know I would be I be
interested in working organization please think of me or
consider me when you have internship opportunities available or new positions
open up and you can follow up with them every six months and I'd use that
approach to land my job that's one of the approaches I took just to keep in
touch with their one of their recruiters and it makes a huge difference and like
I said it makes you look very professional very thoughtful very
prepared I guess remember also with the business
card is you can go on LinkedIn and connect with them there so there's many
different ways you can use this business card just you know besides email now I'm
gonna leave social networking social media out of this video but that's just
something I really wanted to mention just real quick I can save you know I
can give you some suggestions on how to promote yourself professionally and
unlike LinkedIn to those other sites in another video if you'd like me to you
okay ladies and gentlemen those are all the networking tips I have for you today
if there's anything I talked about that did not make sense which is highly
likely that happens feel free to ask me questions drop drop your questions to
comments in the comment section down below I'd be more than happy to respond
let me know which one of these networking tips you want to implement
first what do you think would work for you based on your current personality
and situation let me know in the comment section down below I would love to hear
what you guys are excited to try and let me I can tell you guys I've been doing
this for years now and these tips work it's a professional approach networking
most students who are looking for a job in college aren't gonna follow up like
that aren't gonna have that level of professionalism so if you do these
things it's really going to help you stand out is it gonna guarantee you get
a job of course not but I really think it's gonna help you because I still see
it working today and these tips and career fair networking types of things
if when we see people do that they really look professional and those are
the people that we usually will contact because they're so prepared alright guys
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