Yale Undegraduate Career Services

Career Fairs

Career fairs provide a forum for students to meet with a range of interested employers and organizations, research career options, learn about job and internship opportunities, as well as graduate and professional school options.  Yale students and alumni may attend off-campus events listed below. Registration may be required.

On-Campus Career Fairs

Yale Career Fair

Date: September 16, 2011

Time: 11AM – 3PM

Location: Lanman Center, Payne Whitney Gymnasium

Students interested in locating a summer internship or full-time job should attend this fair. With over 80 participating organizations and businesses, students have abundant opportunities to speak with representatives and learn first-hand about employers. Many of the companies in attendance will be conducting interviews through the On-Campus Recruitment Program during the academic school year. This is a great forum to research industries and career paths, as well as partake of networking opportunities.        

Dress code: Professional/Business Casual

International Opportunities Fair

Date: September 23, 2011

Time: 1 – 3PM

Location: Lanman Center, Payne Whitney Gymnasium

At this fair students can explore a variety of international opportunities. The fair hosts approximately 90 programs, organizations and Yale departments. Students who are interested in undertaking an experience abroad are provided with the opportunity to speak with representatives of academic study abroad programs, foreign universities, internship/work exchange programs, foreign work authorization programs, and several nonprofit organizations as well as Yale departments and programs.

Dress code: Professional/Business Casual

New England Health Professions Fair

Date: September 23, 2011

Time: 12 – 3PM

Location: Lanman Center, Payne Whitney Gymnasium

At this fair first- and second-year students can explore various career fields and schools of medicine. Juniors, seniors, and alumni already in (or about to begin) the application process can speak with the directors of admissions at schools, express interest in the school, and inquire about  application status. Sixty-five of the top schools and programs in the country participate, representing the fields of allopathic and osteopathic medicine, dentistry, public health, nursing, optometry, and physician assistant programs, as well as representatives of MD/PhD programs, Post-Baccalaureate and Special Master's Programs, Diversity Affairs Offices, and Military Scholarship Programs. 

Dress code: Professional/Business Casual

Off-Campus Career Fairs

Student registration for these events is recommended.

Engineering Consortium Career Fair

Date: October 21, 2011

Time: 12 – 4PM

Location: Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University, Broadway & 114th Street,  New York City

Over 100 preeminent national and international engineering employers go to Columbia for the Engineering Consortium Career Fair to network with students and alumni and discuss internship/job opportunities from across a wide variety of fields, companies, and types of employment. Don’t miss this opportunity to interact with the representatives from companies like Arup, Bloomberg L.P., Con Edison, LLC, FactSet Research Systems Inc., Hazen and Sawyer, P.C., Microsoft Corporation, MTA Metro-North Railroad, NASA, Procter & Gamble and many others. 

NOTE: The fair is only open to Yale and other non-Columbia University students after noon.

Registration: Student registration is required by email. Yale students cannot register through the Columbia web site.

RSVP by Sunday October 16 to hold your place at the fair:
1. Send an email to john.bau@yale.edu
2. You MUST include your first name, last name, Yale email address, and graduation date in the text of your message

Dress code: Professional

All Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Career Fair

Date: February 24, 2012

Time: 10AM – 3PM

Location: The Low Memorial Library Rotunda, Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Broadway & 116th Street, New York City

Yale is partnering with Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and University of Pennsylvania to host the ninth annual All Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Career Fair at Columbia University in the City of New York in the Low Library Rotunda.

The Fair provides an opportunity for students to connect with representatives from public agencies, consulting firms, nonprofit organizations and business and industry. This event will provide a forum for employers and students to discuss careers, internships, graduate and full time opportunities in wide range of environmental and sustainability-related fields.

Students are responsible for meeting their own travel and logistical costs and arrangements.

Dress code: Professional

Registration: Student registration is required no later than Wednesday, February 22.