‘Significant turnout’ at career and internship fair

Approximately 600 students and 180 employers attended the Career and Internship Fair in the Hughes-Trigg ballrooms Thursday afternoon.

The event, which takes place once each semester, featured a total of 94 companies this year.

Darin Ford, director for the Hegi Family Career Development Center, said this semester’s fair had a “significant turnout” compared to previous years.

“In the past, we’ve been ecstatic to have 80 to 85 [companies] consistently,” Ford said. “To go over that mark is really a coup for us this that.”

Markets and culture and Spanish double major Matthew Ver Beek, a senior at SMU, attended the fair with the hopes of securing a position in marketing or sales with Southwest Airlines.

“I want to find another internship for the spring,” Ver Beek said.

SMU sophomore Megan Hendricks, a finance and economics major, also attended the event in search of an internship. Hendricks said she talked to about five companies.

“I’m talking to a mix of everybody,” Hendricks said. “I’m just looking for a financial internship, so I’m trying to talk to any company that’s offering on.”

Recruiter for Exchange, an Army and Air Force exchange service, Grace Johnson said SMU students who attend the career fair are always “very on.”