“We hire full-time workers, so unless if the student only had school on the weekends or something like that then they wouldn’t really be able to work for us,” Mike Lake from White Shark Ltd., a window cleaning company, said.
And it was the same case for most of the other employers at the event as well, who said that they didn’t regularly hire or had never hired any students at their workplaces before. In fact, if you’re a student, then your only option may just be to go the retail route. “We see many students come to our table at these job fairs, and we hire many as part-time employees,” Lauren Bishop from Bed, Bath and Beyond said. “We can work around their school schedules so they can work for us.”
NAPP Canada hosts many job fairs around the country and is a “leader in job, employment, and training events for connecting businesses to skilled professionals quickly.” When asked whether students often get employed at their job fairs, a spokesperson for them said that “there is a variety of employers” at their events and that it was “ultimately up to the employer’s decision whether they would want to hire a student or not. Some of them do, some of them don’t.”
Other employers said that it came down to students’ schedules. “In terms of skills it could go either way, it’s just more to do with their availability,” Amanda Gibson from Pivotal Integrated HR Solutions said.
Advitee Kapoor, a first year business student at Humber College, was in attendance. She said she had seen many interesting job opportunities and had handed out her resume to them, and now just had to wait and see if they would call her back. “Most of the employers did take me seriously as a student, but some did change their minds about hiring me once they found out I was one,” Kapoor said.
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