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Attending Other Uni's Career Fairs

Hey guys,

Wanted to get your opinion on attending career fairs of universities (LSE, Cass, Imperial, UCL) you aren't actually a student in.

If someone managed to pull this off in the past, it would be great to her about your experiences! (e.g. whether you managed to get in, were you required to show a ticket or school ID etc)

Many Thanks! :smile:
Not a good idea, IMO. The companies go to the career fairs of specific universities as they are looking for a certain type of student. If you don't go to that uni, you're not what they're looking for.
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ritchie888
Not a good idea, IMO. The companies go to the career fairs of specific universities as they are looking for a certain type of student. If you don't go to that uni, you're not what they're looking for.


Complete Rubbish.

Graduate employers 'target' certain universities for a variety of reasons, usually because of proximity to their offices, but also because there's a lot of people that they consider able graduates in the one place- that's why Manchester, the UK's largest university, is also the most targetted. Targetting usually means they send along a couple of staff with a stall and a box of leaflets to sign people up on- nothing more. They don't turn away Leeds, Oxford or Strathclyde graduates saying "you're not the kind of student we're looking for"- most employers invite applications from anyone, as they're looking for the most suited to the job, not a certain name on a degree- if they want to filter you out or not offer you an interview, that's up to them, they certainly won't discourage you from turning up or applying- they want the biggest pool possible, after all.

OP- you should go- infact, I'd encourage it. If it's LSE finance you might find a group of employers you won't find anywhere else who only take on a very select few a year- but most of the stalls at most fairs are the big graduate employers like Tesco and the NHS who don't care about the name on the degree.

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