UM Alumni, Students Urged to Register for Virtual Career Fair

Online event unites more than 100 employers with prospective hires

Attention, University of Mississippi students and alumni, you still have time to register for the annual SEC-ACC Virtual Career Fair, coming up Wednesday and Thursday (April 1-2).

“More than 105 firms, including Amazon, AT&T, Cox, Duke Energy, E-Trade, Enterprise, EY, Kaiser Permanente, Mitsubishi, Nestle, Toyota, Verizon and more are offering full-time, internship and co-op jobs,” said Jonathan Harrington, associate director of the UM Employer Services Career Center. “It’s a great opportunity for our students and alumni to connect with big-time companies that do not normally recruit with us.”

Participants will have opportunities to connect real-time with employers without the hassle of leaving their home or office. Employers’ chat hours will be posted in advance. A camera is not required for the text chat. Video chats will be scheduled by appointment.

To register, job-seekers simply need to upload their resumes for employers to view. Visit https://www.careereco.com/register/secacc to do so.

As an additional incentive, a $100 gift card will be awarded to the university with the largest number of registered students and/or alumni participants. So far, 1,323 participants representing 28 colleges and universities have pre-registered. With only 18 of these being from Ole Miss, more are encouraged to pre-register.

“You could win a Nano iPod and get a job,” Harrington said. “This is an easy way to potentially get hired.”

For more information, send an email to secacc@careereco.com or call 770-980-0088.