Elevator Pitch

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DECaF Resume CD
Interested in an Internship or Job? Want more
exposure to companies? Get your resume on the
Jacobs School Resume Database! Go
to http//tesc.ucsd.edu/decaf Click on
Students submit your resume now!
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ELEVATOR PITCH

• DECaF Committee
• Workshop

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INTRODUCTION

• Purpose Present yourself in a strong and concise
  manner TO GET THAT JOB
• 2 min
• What Who you are and what you do/have done
• Actions
• Smile
• Eye contact
• Firm handshake
• ENTHUSIASM! Give impression that you want to
  work for them!

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POINTERS

• Give
• Name Major
• Be specific about what position you want
• i.e. summer internship, specific focus
• Relevant course work and skills
• Can give some concrete example
• Be Confident and Respectful
• Make yourself interesting
• Be prepared to answer questions about your
• resume!

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PRACTICE!!!
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DECAF TIMELINE

• Thursday, February 19, 2009
• 400 PM Set-up Ballrooms and Tables and
  Recruiter Information
• Friday, February 20, 2009
• 700 AM Parking Lot Opens, Volunteers Check-In
• 800 AM Recruiters park, check in, and set
  up display materials.
• 930 AM Career Fair begins!!!!!!
• 1100 AM Lunch delivered
• 200 PM Career Fair ends
• 230 PM Post-DECaF Recruiter/Volunteer Mixer

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VOLUNTEER LIST

• Volunteer Room (7 am throughout the day)
• Make sure that non-volunteers are not taking
  food.
• Watch over volunteer equipment.
• Facilitate food
• Company Escorts (730 am 930 am)
• Ride in shuttles with recruiters socialize with
  recruiters
• Make sure drivers know where theyre going (refer
  to campus map)
• Escort recruiters from registration to their
  tables
• Help recruiters set up their tables
• Green Room (7 am through the day)
• Make sure that neither the volunteers nor
  non-volunteers are taking the food. (food is for
  recruiters only)
• Assist with volunteer sign-in (after 1030 am)

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VOLUNTEER LIST

• Volunteer Sign-in (7 am through the day)
• Assist volunteer check-in and direct to their
  positions
• Hand out volunteers shirts to volunteers only
• Prep Room (7 am through the day)
• Assist with printer and laptop setup
• Assist Career Peer Advisors
• Make sure supplies are stocked throughout the day
• Student Registration (9 am 2 pm)
• Make sure students fill out online registration
  form on laptops
• Make sure students get a name tag with
  appropriate colored stickers for their majors
• Remind students waiting in line to have their
  UCSD student ID cards ready
• Do not let any non-UCSD student or non-student
  in.

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VOLUNTEER TASKS

• Throughout DECaF in ballroom (930 am 2 pm)
• Socialize with recruiters who havent been
  talking with students in a while
• Assist recruiters and students
• Lunch Distribution food (1030 am 1pm)
• Use the Ballroom layout provided (with the
  company list) to pass out lunches
• Keep meat and vegetarian lunches stocked on the
  cart
• Refer to the company lunch list (which will be
  given to you on the day) to pass out lunches
• Make sure catering picks up carts at 1pm
• Lunch Distribution Drinks (1030 am 1pm)
• Follow the lunch carts and ask company recruiters
  what they would like to drink with their lunch
• Make sure the tubs are stocked with ice and
  drinks

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VOLUNTEER TASKS

• Advertising Library Walk (7 am 1pm)
• Library Walk and In-Class Announcement ALL DAY
• Surveyors (1 pm 2pm)
• Pick up the surveys from the volunteer room
• Describe what the survey is and its purpose to
  recruiters
• Check up on companies as you hand out surveys and
  see if they need anything
• Have companies leave surveys at their table.
• Will help to improve our school curriculum for
  ABET accreditation
• Clean up (2-230 pm and 330 pm afterwards)
• Delegate volunteers to help companies pack up
  their materials, then break down their booths
• Work with Kat, Eunice, and Emily to pack
  everything up as quickly as possible