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Equipped with resumes and dressed in professional business attire, students and alumni networked with more than 250 organizations during five career fairs at ������ý���� this semester.

Seeking to make inroads on their career ambitions, more than 400 students and alumni combined attended the events, including senior accounting major Rahquan King-Stubbs, who has been attending the annual fairs since his freshman year.

“The career fair is such a great experience to not only look for jobs but to engage with the professionals you hope to one day call coworkers,” King-Stubbs says. “The career fair has provided me with a wide array of connections to the business world as well as seasoned my skills to acquire the five internships I have completed.”

������ý����'s first-ever accounting career fair kicked things off on Feb. 21. The event attracted 25 employers assembled in the Cavalla Room in hopes of recruiting the University's highly sought after accounting majors. ������ý����'s accounting program is accredited by AACSB International — the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The accounting accreditation is held by less than five percent of programs worldwide.

The criminal justice career fair on April 2 and the fine and performing arts career fair on April 9 each featured 20 employers. In between those fairs, this year's education career fair was ������ý����'s biggest ever, with 85 employers seeking students and graduates from ������ý����'s College of Education and Human Services, which was the first private institution in New Jersey to have the prestigious National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (now known as the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation) — the highest accreditation available.

At the University's general spring career fair on March 28 in the Student Recreation Center, students could, in addition to meeting business representatives, have headshots taken for their LinkedIn pages. At that fair, King-Stubbs was able to serve as a recruiter for his post-graduation employer, KPMG, one of the Big 4 accounting firms.

Functions like these play an important role in contributing to successful outcomes for ������ý���� graduates. For more information on how ������ý���� students can search for jobs or internships, attend events or workshops, strengthen job-related skills and develop a career plan, visit www.rider.edu/careers.