Career Fair encourages students to think of future
On Nov. 19 the annual Career Fair took place, offering students
at San Benito High School information about colleges, trade schools
and job opportunities. The fair was held in the Mattson Gym were
students crowded over booths, trying to find information on career
options for after high school.
Career Fair encourages students to think of future
On Nov. 19 the annual Career Fair took place, offering students at San Benito High School information about colleges, trade schools and job opportunities. The fair was held in the Mattson Gym were students crowded over booths, trying to find information on career options for after high school.
Representatives from such places as the Fashion Institute of Design and Marketing to the Carpenters’ Training Center had booths where students could get informational pamphlets as well as ask questions about the schools or careers.
Before a student was able to attend the Career Fair, they took an “Inventory of Interest” survey in their science classes. This survey was taken so a student could determine what sort of career field they should look into. Once the “Inventory of Interest” survey was completed, the student was given a “passport” that helped them organize the booths they thought would be most interesting based on the results from their survey. This was the first year the survey and passports were given out to students to help them focus on career options that matched their personalities. As extra incentive to use the passports, students who visited at least three booths and received a passport sticker for each, were entered into a drawing for an iPod.
“Getting students to think about their careers in high school is very important,” said Andy Prisco, a San Benito High School counselor. “We do whatever we can do to get students to think about life after high school.”
Students certainly seemed interested, said first-time Career Fair representative Chef Robert Edwards of the California Culinary Academy.
“I had a huge turn out,” Edwards said, at the event. “They have taken all of my flyers.”
With such an influx of students trying to find information on the careers that interested them, some students said the gym was a little over crowded. Students expressed that it was difficult to figure out what schools or organizations the representatives were from because other students often covered the signs on the booths
Some students, such as Senior Monica Zendejas, spent time visiting college recruiters for schools to which they had already applied. The SBHS senior commented that the Career Fair was “very enlightening because it opened my eyes to different career options.”
