On 16th of November, the much awaited IT-Hekuma took place at TUT. It was bustling with eager students and scores of IT companies looking for prospective candidates, at the same time promoting their brand and handing out free goodies. It was a good opportunity to walk around the fair to observe how different company stands actually operate and to monitor corresponding student reactions. The entire team got together and went from stand to stand to take note of minute details that make a company stand out in such events.
We got an opportunity to finally meet Eatech’s recruiting manager Sanna, who usually works remotely from Spain and was visiting Tampere for IT-Hekuma. Since it was a busy day for Eatech at the fair, we had a quick round of introductions and then a short chat discussing about areas of improvement and career fairs in general.
17th of November was a very exciting day for the smartcareerexpo team as it was the day of the first major pitching event conducted at New Factory. Burni proved to be a very confident and effective speaker and made a rather good 3 minute pitch. Some feedback was received from the audience which was in fact very helpful and will help us enhance our final pitch (to be held on 12.1.2017).
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