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Employers dip into CLASS pool

by CASEY WOOTEN
The Daily Cougar

Students filed into the Houston Room of the University Center on Wednesday for the third annual College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences career fair. 

The event, organized by the CLASS career center, brought 42 potential employers together with an estimated 700 to 1,000 job-seekers.

Employers ranging from Wells Fargo to the City of Houston set up displays and handed out pamphlets with information about their companies. 

"I'm a graduating senior and this is my first time here, so I just wanted to see what it would be like," advertising senior Latrice Chatman said. 

Nearly twice as many employers participated in the event compared to last year.

"We try to recruit based on our disciplines that are represented in our college," Cornelius Johnson, director of the CLASS career center, said.

The booth run by retail giant Target handed out large white bags with their company's logo printed on the side. 

"We're recruiting executive salary team leaders," Target representative Allan Peters said. "We're looking for somebody interested in the retail field and somebody that wants to grow with a company that's continuing to grow." 

Before the career fair, CLASS career counseling launched a campaign to get the word out about the event. 

"One-third of the University of Houston population is in the College of Liberal Arts -- that's over 8,000 members," Janie Graham, director of academic affairs at CLASS, said. "So we hope if we get 700 to 1000 students that we could give (employers) the service they are looking for."

Graham said one problem is the impression CLASS students have about the availability of assistance within the school. 

"Unfortunately, the Liberal Arts and Social Sciences members are so used to not getting the attention. They feel they're here for Bauer, or they're for engineering or they're for everybody else but them. The message we want to get out is, ‘we're here to help,'" she said. 
 

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