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Fall Focus Career Fair Fees

Registration Fee: $375.00 for an 8' booth and $400.00 for a 10' booth.
This fee includes four representatives. Booth space includes a 6 ft table, chairs, reception, continental breakfast, and lunch.

Each additional representative over four will be charged $45.00.

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Schedule of Events

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Hokies4Hire Resume Access

The employers attending the Fall Focus Career Fair will have access to student resumes via the on-line resume database in the Hokies4Hire System. This service is free for all Virginia Tech students. We are encouraging students attending the Fall Focus Career Fair to login to the Hokies4Hire System and post their resumes, and also to bring hard copies of resumes to the fair.

Employers without a Hokies4Hire System account will need to sign up for one to access students' resumes online at www.career.vt.edu/employer/resumes.htm.

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Registration Click here

Registration is available online only. After registering, information on your company will become available to students on our website. The cost of registering and reserving a booth for four representatives is $375.00 for an 8' booth and $400.00 for a 10' booth per company. Additional representatives will be charged $45.00 each. We ask that you submit your registration prior to August 3, 2008. You will receive a confirmation email upon receipt of your registration.

Any questions regarding career fair arrangements should be directed to Candace Broaddus , Project Leader, Ag Economics Club at (804) 512-4154 or email cbroad05@vt.edu or Jacque Pelzer , Career Services Coordinator, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at (540) 231-6939 or jpelzer@vt.edu

Cancellations prior to August 1, 2008 will result in a 50% refund of registration fees. Cancellations on or after August 1, 2008 will result in no refund.


Click here for list of organizations that attended in 2007.

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Lodging

Lodging
Individuals will be responsible for making their own lodging reservations. For your convenience, we have held rooms at the following hotels:

** Please ask for the Fall Focus Career Fair rate when making reservations.**

Hawthorn Suites
(540) 552-5636
$79.00 per night
(Must book by August 9, 2008)

Holiday Inn University
(540) 552-7001 Fax: 540-552-3421
$95.00 per night
(Must book by August 18, 2008)
Web site www.holiday-inn.com/blacksburgva

Courtyard by Marriott
(540) 552-5222 Fax: (540) 552-5322
$99.00 per night single
(Must book by August 12, 2008)

Comfort Inn
(540) 951-1500
$109.00 per night
Must book by August 12, 2008)

 

Maps, Driving Directions, and Parking

Maps

Regional Highway Map
Blacksburg Area Main Roads
Blacksburg Detail Map
Squires Vicinity Map
Campus Map Detail of Squires Area
Full Campus Map (large)

Parking Passes

Parking Passes will be provided at the reception on Wednesday evening, when organization representatives check in the morning of the fair, or at the parking lot by shuttle drivers. You must park in the designated area and take the shuttle to and from Squires, or you will be ticketed. None of the sponsoring Colleges will be responsible for parking tickets received by those parking in areas other than the designated parking area.

Driving Directions

To Squires Student Center (From I-81 S):

Take exit 118B Christiansburg, Blacksburg 460 West. Continue on 460 West for 9 miles.

Go through the stoplight at Southgate Road, take the next exit toward downtown.

If you are unloading at Squires:

You are now on Prices Fork Road. At the third stoplight take a right (Wendy's is on your right). Go through 1 stop light. Take the next right onto Alumni Mall. Continue down the mall until you reach the bridge over the mall; at that point, make a U-turn, so that you are on the other side of the road. Once you turn around Squires will be on your right. Unload at the reserved metered spots just in front of the bus stop.

After unloading you will be directed to the Special Event parking area across campus. Shuttles will be provided throughout the day to take people back and forth from this parking area to Squires Student Center.

There will be volunteers outside Squires Student Center, to assist you in unloading your boxes, etc. Upon Checking In at the Employer Check-In Booth, where you will be issued your parking permit (if you have not already received it), we ask that you follow the directions below to the designated FALL FOCUS PARKING AREA. SHUTTLE VAN SERVICES WILL BE RUNNING ROUND THE CLOCK, from 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM (or as late as needed) to bring you to and from the parking lot, and Squires Student Center

To Parking Area from Squires Student Center:

1. Squires Student Center is on Alumni Mall. Continue straight on Alumni Mall. Make a U-turn close to Main Street and come back down the mall.

2. Turn RIGHT at the stop sign at the top of the drillfield. Continue around the drillfield, and take a RIGHT at the stop sign at the opposite end of the drillfield onto West Campus Drive.

3 . Take the first LEFT onto Duck Pond Drive. Follow Duck Pond Drive around the Duck Pond, passing the Holtzman Alumni Center entrance, the golf course, and the Overflow Parking area. The SPECIAL EVENT PARKING area will be on your right just past the end of the Duck Pond. Signs will be posted at the entrance to the parking area. A phone number will also be listed on the signs for representatives to call to have the shuttle pick them up.

4 . Shuttle vans will circle the parking area to pick up riders (average is about 20 minute loop).

From Parking Area to Squires Student Center:

From the parking area, turn LEFT onto Duck Pond Drive.

At the stop sign, turn RIGHT onto West Campus Drive.

Turn LEFT onto Drillfield Drive and continue around the drillfield.

Turn RIGHT onto Alumni Mall just past the Library. Squires Student Center will be on your right.

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