Job Fairs - Will you be my answer?

Last Wednesday I visited my first job fair in nearly five years. The last job fair I had visited was while I was at Sixth Form.

I find the whole concept of the job fair rather odd to be honest, a market place for employers in basis. Chances are, if you've been to a job fair before, you can at least in part predict which organisations will be represented. The Armed Forces for one are frequently found recruiting at the job fairs. Similarly are the public services (Police, Fire Ambulance).

While I have no problem whatsoever with these organizations recuruting at job fairs, they aren't the sort of jobs that I'd like to do. I've thought about the Emergency Services, and I came to the conclusion that my path in life doesn't lie with them. I've had the Armed Forces try and recruit me before, but the idea doesn't interest me as a potential career.

At this particular job fair I visited I admit to spending roughly Thirty seconds at the fair itself, I entered seeing if there was a stall that might interest me and found that I was greeted by; a) the aformentioned public services, b) a number of universities and c) a small number of banks and insurance services who were merely trying to gain new customers, not new staff.

Did the experience dishearten me? Not particularly, from previous job fairs I felt as though I could guess at what to expect, and I was right. The target audience for this particular fair wasn't the graduate field from what I could tell. As a result, never mind, something else will come along before too long I'm sure.