Career Fair
Fri, 2005-09-23 01:24 — jrearick
Wednesday was career fair. I wasn't really expecting much for anything, but I was willing to give it a shot. Wednesday morning I found that my nice "suit" didn't fit anymore, so I have to take some time between class to purchase a new outfit.
I made it to the career fair at about 5:00 PM. Most of my time was spent browsing around the floor of Hilton. I stopped by the usually places like General Mills and Cargil, but they seemed way too discouraged at anything that was below a 3.00. American Century Investments seemed they were in need of some IT Interns, but they are based in Missouri and do a lot with COBOL, and from the looks of their web site, they are not very advanced in the technology or even organized, which leads me to believe the IT environment there is not very pleasant.
I was on my way out when I realized there were a bunch of employers on the concessions level. These were mostly the smaller companies that actually had their IT people there instead of the generic HR person who doesn't know half a thing about computers. There I met two potential leads. One is with Atanasoft (I know, really bad PUN), a development outsourcing company located in the ISU Research Park. They primarily work with database systems. It seems like a good opportunity for me to get my hands dirty with coding. I have an interview with them Friday afternoon. We'll see how that goes. The other company also seems really cool. Source Allies is a consulting / outsourcing company that deals primarily with open source solutions and web applications. They seemed very enthusiastic and interested in me. I feel like if they could provide me with an internship, I could learn more about web development, but I suppose that will also mean I won't get very much into application development. They weren't looking for any internships, but they did seem really interested in me.
Anyway, I have class at 8 AM so I should get some sleep.
I made it to the career fair at about 5:00 PM. Most of my time was spent browsing around the floor of Hilton. I stopped by the usually places like General Mills and Cargil, but they seemed way too discouraged at anything that was below a 3.00. American Century Investments seemed they were in need of some IT Interns, but they are based in Missouri and do a lot with COBOL, and from the looks of their web site, they are not very advanced in the technology or even organized, which leads me to believe the IT environment there is not very pleasant.
I was on my way out when I realized there were a bunch of employers on the concessions level. These were mostly the smaller companies that actually had their IT people there instead of the generic HR person who doesn't know half a thing about computers. There I met two potential leads. One is with Atanasoft (I know, really bad PUN), a development outsourcing company located in the ISU Research Park. They primarily work with database systems. It seems like a good opportunity for me to get my hands dirty with coding. I have an interview with them Friday afternoon. We'll see how that goes. The other company also seems really cool. Source Allies is a consulting / outsourcing company that deals primarily with open source solutions and web applications. They seemed very enthusiastic and interested in me. I feel like if they could provide me with an internship, I could learn more about web development, but I suppose that will also mean I won't get very much into application development. They weren't looking for any internships, but they did seem really interested in me.
Anyway, I have class at 8 AM so I should get some sleep.
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