Engineering Careers Day

On the 11th November 2015, the event "Engineering Career Fair" is held in the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, organized by Career Advisory Service Team followed by support from IEM UNMC, UNMCRS, IEEE, ICE, IMechE, and IStructE. The event was participated by six companies, namely, Motorola, Accenture, Sunway Groups, AECOM, Shell and MRCB.

 





This event is organized with the aim to allow participants of the event to be more familiar with the industry they might be interested in and its future developments. Students can take this event as an opportunity to apply for internships or any future career opportunities with the companies mentioned. Students will then have a much clearer picture and a good idea what is to be expected when transitioning from university background to a working environment.


The event is divided into 3 parts, the first part is the booth session, followed by speed networking session which goes simultaneously with the booth session, and finally the exclusive dinner session for the company reps, the dean, several invited lecturers and the organizing committee. The detailed description for each session are as follows;


- Booth Session
There will be booths set up by the company with banners and buntings prepared from each perspective booth showcasing what the company is about and what they do. Students will then engage with the company reps at the booth asking question to obtain some idea or insights about what the company do. If the student seem to be interested, he or she can then submit their CVs or resumes for the company rep either for an internship position or future career opportunities.

- Speed Networking Session
Speed Networking session was held separately in the Great Hall where the students will take their turns according to the time slot given, to have the chance to network with the company representative inside the Great Hall. There were several booth inside the Great hall where each booth will contain around 6-7 students followed by the 1- 4 company representatives. During this session, active Q&A sessions were engaged between the students and the company representative. The aim of this session is to allow students to have a greater idea and greater understanding from an experienced employee perspective of what the working environment is like, their experiences, along with some insights regarding the engineering industry.

- Exclusive Dinner Session
Typical Buffet Style dinner for the VIPs and the organizing committee members.



On the day of the event itself, the infrastructure team has prepared the general layout of the booth session, at the ground floor of the Trent Building, and the Great Hall. All the electrical systems, PA systems were prepared for the event.

Roughly around 2.00pm, the company representatives arrives. They received guidance from the Public Relation Teams to show the way around the campus and lead them to the Trent Building to allow them start preparing their materials and props at their booth. At 3.00pm, as the company reps were done preparing setting up each perspective booth, the students are starting to come in and the booth session was officially began.

Company Reps at their booth (AECOM)

Accenture Booth and the Company Reps

Students Engaging with the Company Reps from MRCB

Students Engaging with the Motorola Company Representative

IMechE taking this opportunity to promote their society.

You are right! We also took this precious opportunity to promote too! 

In the Great Hall, about 3.45pm, the Opening Ceremony begins with the arrival of the dean, Professor Ian Harrison, Careers Advisory Head, Ms Alicia, Student Experience Head, Ms Mavis, along with the company representatives from each company followed by the first batch of students for the speed networking session. The Emcee begins an introduction and invites the dean to give a Welcoming speech. After the speech is done, Certificate Presentation Ceremony begins with the Dean and the Head of Careers Advisory Team, Ms Alicia presenting the certificates to the company reps as an appreciation gift for their participation towards this event.

VIPs, waiting for the Opening Ceremony to begin

Inspiring and Insightful welcoming speech by the Dean of Engineering, Professor Ian Harrison

Professor Ian Harrison, Ms Alicia along with other company representative posing for a "FreeStyle" photo.

As the opening ceremony ends, the speed networking session begins, with batch after batch of students coming in for their turn to have their chance to network with their chosen company representative. Each batch are given a 15mins time allowance. Meanwhile, in the Trent Building Ground Floor, the booth session is ongoing answering any questions that the students might have regarding the company plus collection of CVs presented to the company reps by the students to consider an internship placement or potential employment in the future.

Networking Session 

More Networking Session

Yeap, Networking session still~

Networking Session is the bomb!!!!

Students discussing which booth to visit 

Handsome~

Company Rep Preparing her material

At 6.00pm, the exclusive dinner session begins as the last event for the Engineering Career Fair. Food were prepared, chairs were arranged, and this is the time where the organizing committee got a chance to network with the company reps. There were also musical performance prepared during the dinner session showing musical talents from UNMC.

Food prepared, showing what is like to have exquisite Semenyih Dining Experience in our honorable clock tower of UNMC, The TRENT BUILDING.

Delightful smiles, satisfied company reps with their food.

Onnomnomnom.

Musical Performance!

After the dinner session, the infrastructure team begins to clean up the Great Hall and the Trent Building floors thus marking the end of the "Engineering Career Fair" event. 

Prepared by,

Chang Sze Hong,

Marketing Team.