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    Opportunities provided at part-time job fair

    Students and employers from the region connect  at the summer part-time job fair held in the student union breezway.  Movie Tavern employer speaks to interested student.

    Students and employers from the region connect  at the summer part-time job fair held in the student union breezway.  Movie Tavern employer speaks to interested student.
    The Lion's Roar/Ian Fischer

    After the end of semester, Lions will start spending their time working to save up money for the costs of the upcoming school year. 

    Last Thursday, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the Office of Campus Career Services hosted the summer part-time job fair in the Student Union Mall in order to connect employers with these students who will be looking for work over the summer. According to the Assistant Director of Student Employment at the Office of Career Services, Brittany Bacques, the part-time job fair gives students an advantage they would not have had if they just applied online. 

    “You get to meet with employers face-to-face and it’s sort of like a mini-interview at first,” said Bacques. “They’ll offer you a job application on the spot and you can fill it out right there. They’ve already met you. They’ve already done that screening process.”

    The summer part-time job fair is the second part-time job fair the Office of Career Services offers. The other one happens during August for students looking for a job to help them pay for the Fall semester. Freshman psychology major Erik Malick said the career fair was helpful in his search for a part-time employer.

    “Seeing everything out in plain view where I can just go to who I want,” said Malick. “No hassle.”

    Malick said he saw interesting employers, but he wasn’t finished exploring all of the options at the fair. 

    According to Bacques, there were some new opportunities for student part-time employment at this summer part-time job fair. 

    “We have two athletic clubs that have never come here before: Franco’s athletic club and Stone Creek,” said Bacques. “Both in St. Tammany Parish.” 

    In and Out Phone Repair, the Movie Tavern of Covington and Triple B’s Cajun Corner, a New Orleans restaurant, are also among the new employers who participated in the part-time job fair. Bacques said there usually are between 30 to 40 employers at the fair and most return because of their interest in students the university has to offer to them. 

    “Southeastern’s got great students, we’re looking for really bright vibrant people to come out at Global and we definitely found a lot out here,” said the representative of Global Wildlife Center Amber Breaux. The Global Wildlife Center is a Wildlife refuge in Folsom for exotic animals such as zebras and kangaroos.

    Most of the employers were from areas where the university has potential students. They set up booths to engage the students who would be potential employees. Breaux’s booth had a photo album and antlers from animals at the Global Wildlife Center.

    To find out more about how the university can connect you to employers for the summer, contact the Office of Career Services at 985-549-2121. 

     
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