For Students

What is a Virtual Career Fair?

A virtual career fair is quite similar to a physical career fair. You get to meet and chat with potential employers from many different companies and organizations online and hear more about their organization, values and opportunities.

Virtual Stalls

Prior to the event you can learn about the companies by visiting their virtual stall. In the stall, the companies can post jobs, frequently asked questions, a video, company description and much more. From October 1:st most of the exhibitors will have their stall online.

Chat with Companies

During the event you have the chance to chat with representatives from the companies and organizations, similar to a physical fair. In addition to writing to companies, you can choose to video chat or voice chat for a more personal experience. Don’t be afraid to talk to companies!

Webinars and Contact Talks

During the fair day, you can also attend webinars on the fair and contact talks. A webinar can be a presentation by a company or similar, live sent on the platform. As a student, you have the chance to ask questions during the webinar.

A contact talk is a longer personal meeting with a company representative that you apply for in advance on the virtual fair. The companies choose the students from the applications for a virtual meeting.

More information regarding the contact talks can be found here.

Lounge

There will still be free fika and coffee! Utnarm will do home delivery! Because of the situation with Covid-19, we will unfortunately not be able to have any physical lounges. But Utnarm will still deliver fika to students attending the fair! To get free fika and coffee, you have to fill out our form and then we will deliver fika to you. We will deliver fika to specific student areas during specific times of the fair day. If you live in Uppsala but not in one of these areas, we will try to deliver your fika to your door (but we cannot guarantee anything). The form will close Tuesday 3rd of November 18:00, so make sure you order your fika on time. There will be one regular, one gluten-free, and one vegan alternative. Hope you like our new lounge concept!

CV-photography

When was the last time you updated your CV photo? Utnarm 2020 offers CV-photography on the 26th and 30th of October. This is a great opportunity to update your UU student account with a perfect picture, the same account you use for the virtual fair. You can book a time for CV-photography here.

Are you at the beginning of your education?
Take the opportunity to get inspiration for your future! At Utnarm, you have the possibility to broaden your horizons and explore exciting industries and the variety of companies available. Many companies have good advice for future course options and what your studies can lead to.

General but valuable advice can be found at all companies, so please do not hesitate to talk to the company that you do not think fits you, because who knows what you want to work with in the future? Even during years 1 and 2, you have good opportunities to make contacts that can lead to interesting summer jobs.

Are you in the middle of your education?

Here you have the perfect opportunity to talk to those companies that seem interesting for summer jobs, thesis and future employment. An excellent opportunity to get inspiration for the choices of courses in your education.

Ask the companies what they look for in their employees - perhaps they want students who have been on exchange studies or students who have been involved in the student union.

Are you at the end of your education?

Utnarm could be your step out into working life, so come prepared. Get all the information you need about your thesis and jobs after graduation. Build contacts and collect information about the companies you think would suit you. But remember to think outside the box, perhaps your dream company is something very different than you originally thought - which way do you want to go?