hirewesternu Career Fair
Meet with employers, design your life.
Meet employers who have full-time, part-time, and work integrated learning opportunities.
Open to ALL programs, academic levels, and alumni.
Mustang Lounge, UCC
The hirewesternu Career Fair is proudly sponsored by:
Attending Employers
Subject to change; new employers added often!
February 11
- BBA
- Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board
- Camp Manitou
- Canada Life
- Canadian Forces
- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL)
- Cermak Peterka Peterson Wind Engineering Consultants
- City of London
- Co-elevate
- Collabera
- Dale Brain Injury Services Inc
- Diagnostic Biochem Canada
- Ensign Services, Inc.
- Enterprise Mobility
- Ernst & Young
- Explore and Odyssey Programs
- Fisher Professional Corporation
- GEI Consultants
- General Dynamics Land Systems - Canada
- Government of Ontario
- Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
- Info-Tech Research Group
- Isaac Operations
- LamSar Inc.
- LBMX Inc
- Linamar
- London Economic Development Corporation
- London Health Sciences Centre
- London Hydro Inc.
- Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc.
- Mark Anthony Group
- Niagara Health
- Norfolk General Hospital
- North Shore Health Network and Manitoulin Health Centre
- Pathways Employment Help Centre
- Penske Truck Leasing
- PepsiCo
- Saputo Dairy Products
- Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership
- Schaeffler Canada Inc.
- SE Health (Saint Elizabeth Health Care)
- Leonard's Community Services
- Thomas Elgin General Hospital
- Thomas Police Service
- Steelway Building Systems
- Sun Life
- Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital and Alexandra Hospital Ingersoll
- Tim Horton Children's Foundation
- Trojan Technologies
- Vantage Marketing
- Verita Global
- Waterloo Regional Police Service
- Wawanesa Insurance
- Western Financial Group
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
February 12
- Amico
- BNG Bossy Nagy Group
- Bristol Capital Management
- Canadian Addiction Treatment Centres
- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL)
- Cermak Peterka Peterson Wind Engineering Consultants
- Chatham-Kent Health Alliance
- Cheshire Independent Living Services
- City of London
- Coca Cola Canada Bottling
- Collabera
- Co-operators London Adelaide Agency
- Davis Martindale
- Ensign Services, Inc.
- Enterprise Mobility
- exp Services Inc.
- Famme & Co. Professional Corporation
- FDM Group
- General Dynamics Land Systems - Canada
- Haveman Brothers Forestry Services Ltd.
- Heaps & Doyle
- North Shore Health Network and Manitoulin Health Centre
- Ontario Power Generation
- PepsiCo
- PHSS
- Scotlynn Commodities Inc
- Sherwin-Williams
- Thomas Elgin General Hospital
- Trojan Technologies
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
Preparing for the Career Fair
Consider exploring some options to improve your communication with employers at the Fair.
UNDERSTANDING YOUR STRENGTHS
Using a strengths-based approach can help you articulate your natural skills and talents with employers. Attend a Strengths workshop , explore online resources , or visit the Strengths booth at the Fair to discover strategies for articulating your skills with employers.
CAREER WORKSHOPS
Attend a career workshop to learn specific strategies for networking, preparing your resume, and optimizing your LinkedIn profile in advance of the Fair. You can also browse our pre-recorded workshops on OWL.
BEFORE THE FAIR
Review the list of participating organizations; new attendees are added regularly.
Visit the organizations’ websites to gain an understanding of who they are and what they do. Prepare a list of questions to show what you’ve learned about the company and to find out more.
Prioritize a list of organizations to connect with.
Develop and practice your Personal Brand Statement .
Review the other ways to prepare .
AT THE FAIR
Greet recruiters with a smile, introduce yourself using your Personal Brand Statement .
Listen attentively to the company representatives when they are talking to you.
Ask about the challenges they are working on, trends in their field, advice on how to prepare for roles within their company, and how they stay current in their field.
Ask for the representative's email address so that you may keep in touch. Write a brief note to remind yourself of the conversation.
Other Ways to Prepare
Have Your Resume Reviewed
Talk to a Career Coach
Considerations for Attire
Careers & Experience values and respects the rich culture and experiences of Western students, and understands that traditional dress codes can limit their ability to express their whole selves. We wish to empower students to embody their professional identity in a way that is true to them, and encourage students to present themselves in a way that is not limiting to their identities.
Please do not feel you need to: change your natural hair texture/colour/style, remove or re-style any religious symbols or headwear (or adapt religious dress), adapt to gender binaries, and/or hide or remove piercings and tattoos.
As a general guideline, your attire should appear workplace appropriate. We recommend wearing business casual attire.
Sample Conversation Starters
We'd recommend researching the attending organizations to learn which you're most interested in learning more about so you can target your networking at the Career Fair. Consider the challenges their organization would be looking to solve and whether you are interested in being involved. The recruiters can help you explore their organizations in more detail and help you better understand how to best prepare for work in these fields. Consider asking the following:
- I've read that your company is working on [insert topic of interest]. Can you tell me more about what this looks like?
- How do the roles you're hiring for contribute to solving the challenges you're working on?
- How have the challenges your company is working on changed over time? Do you think they will continue to evolve in the future?
- What are a few important things you've learned from working in this field?
- What are some skills/important things you wish you'd known when you were starting out?
- What skills, competencies, or experiences are beneficial for a candidate to have?
- What would you recommend I be doing now to prepare for a career in this field?
