{"id":421774,"date":"2010-03-12T17:29:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T22:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=14016"},"modified":"2010-03-12T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T22:29:26","slug":"on-the-job-hunt-big-east-job-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421774","title":{"rendered":"On The Job Hunt: Big East Job Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They came in droves to the Big East Job Fair today at Madison Square Garden in New York City.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14017\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 269px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14017\" title=\"Looking for work\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/03\/DSC06180-259x194.jpg\" alt=\"Recruiter talks with student\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recruiter talks with student<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over 1,000 students and alumni from the 16 Big East Conference Schools put their &#8220;game faces&#8221; on to meet employers, shake hands and pass out resumes to score a job in a wide range of fields, including Accounting, Science, Finance, and Health Care.<\/p>\n<p>Job Fair representatives say they saw a new trend at the sixth annual event: an increase in alumni looking for work, many of whom had high paying jobs in the past, but have been laid off in the last year due to downsizing and the failing economy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14018\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 269px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14018\" title=\"Job Fair mingling\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/03\/DSC06183-259x194.jpg\" alt=\"Big smiles and resumes at the Big East Job Fair\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big smiles and resumes at the Big East Job Fair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hundreds of entry level jobs and internships were on the table from companies like Apple, AT&amp;T, and Wells Fargo.\u00a0 Recruiters say they are keeping their eyes peeled for the best and brightest in the bunch.\u00a0\u00a0 The Hess Energy Marketing based in New Jersey is looking for logistic managers, Hamilton Insurance Company based in Virginia is searching for customer service employees, as well as positions in sales and marketing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14019\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 269px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14019\" title=\"potential employees wait in line\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/03\/DSC06185-259x194.jpg\" alt=\"Looking for Jobs\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking for Jobs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>With the nation&#8217;s unemployment rate at 9.7 percent &#8211; many attendees said they can&#8217;t afford to pass up the chance to get some face time with prospective employers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They came in droves to the Big East Job Fair today at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Recruiter talks with student Over 1,000 students and alumni from the 16 Big East Conference Schools put their &#8220;game faces&#8221; on to meet employers, shake hands and pass out resumes to score a job in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}