Roslindale Job Fair: What To Expect If You're Looking For Work

ROSLINDALE, MA — A Neighborhood Career Fair in Roslindale will take over the Community Center Thursday in a city-led effort to help connect residents with jobs and area businesses with diverse candidates.

Participants can come explore employment opportunities, meet with participating employers and find career opportunities in areas that include municipal government and the private sector.

Job fairs are often seen as a way for folks searching for work to maximize time and effort. It's almost impossible to visit 35 prospective employers in one day to chat with them in any other setting outside of a job fair.

Some of the time, the organization's representitives won’t be able to discuss specific jobs, but they will be able to talk with you about the business, the kinds of jobs generally available, requirements, career paths. In other cases, they’re recruiting for specific internships or jobs and they’ll accept resumes to take back with them for hiring managers, so bring as many copies as you can.

Some tips if you're looking for work and plan to go to the job fair?

• Take a look at the list of organizations coming and plan to head to the ones that are most relevant to your interests.
• Although conversations here are less formal than interviews, avoid T-shirts, jeans, short skirts, sportswear, and hats. It’s not a date, so it’s best to keep it conservative.
• Turn off your cell phone.
• When meeting employers, introduce yourself in a confident manner, with a smile, firm handshake, and good eye contact.
• Bring copies of your resume to leave with employers.
• Have a pen and paper so you can take down information.
• As you leave each rep, learn what happens next, and what, if anything, you should do to advance your candidacy. Ask for a business card so you can maintain future contact and send follow-up thank-you notes (handwritten or by email) to those employers in whom you’re most interested.

The job fair is being hosted by the City's Office of Diversity.

WHEN: Thursday, December 6, 2018
5:30 pm- 7:30 pm
WHERE: Roslindale Community Center
6 Cummins Highway, Roslindale

WHAT Busineses will be there:

• Action for Boston Community Development
• Boston Career Link
• Boston Centers for Youth & Families
• Boston Police Department
• Boston Public Health Commission
• Boston Water & Sewer Commission
• Bright Horizons
• Building Pathways Boston
• Office of the State Treasurer and Receiver General
• Patina Restaurant Group
• City of Boston Public Facilities Department
• Suffolk County Sheriff's Department
• City of Boston Office of Human Resources
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• CozyKin
• Department of Correction
• East Boston Savings Bank
• Eliot & MSPCC (Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)
• Favorite Healthcare Staffing
• Northeast Center for Tradeswomen's Equity
• Oasis
• TD Garden (Boston Bruins, Delaware North)
• The Boston Beer Company
• Whole Foods Market
• High Sierra Pools
• Hollister Staffing
• Jewish Vocational Service & Career Solution
• Judge Rotenberg Center
• Massachusetts State Police
• Massachusetts Department of Corrections
• MassHire Boston Career Center
• Mayor's Office of Economic Development
• Mayor's Office of Workforce Development
• New England Center for Arts and Technology
• Wynn Boston Harbor

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