The 10^th Annual Career Fair took place on Friday 07^th of February 2014 and was a beehive of activities from 8.00 a.m – 5.00 p.m. as the companies made their entrance to the Strathmore Graduation Square, the venue of the event. It was a great ocassion for interactions between Strathmore students and HR Directors and HR personnel from the various organisations in attendance.

 

Strathmore University had the privilege of hosting 34 companies and over 350 Strathmore students were in attendance. The students benefitted greatly from the interactions. They learned a lot of essential and vital information from the companies such as what career opportunities are available in the companies, knowledge of the companies activities and graduate recruitment opportunities therein.

 

The companies themselves left no stone unturned as they sought to represent their brands to the students and as such, institutions such as I&M Bank came with its own branded tent and Intercontinental Hotel brought their finest selection of linen to transform their tent into a mini hotel room.

 

This year the career fair was graced by the presence of Mr. Phillipe Labonne, CEO of Bollore Logistics Africa, who was up and about giving students insights on the company as well as information on the firms activities in the region. Mr. Sayed Haggag of Marriott international who had visited the University to recruit for their Voyage Global Leadership Program earlier in the week also joined the other companies to sensitize students on the career opportunities in Marriott chain of hotels.

 

Most companies in attendance got quite a reception such that the inevitable advent of rain would not deter the curious students from finding out all they could especially since some of the companies such as Fairmont Hotels and Open Capital were bringing Strathmore Alumni who work for them along as such the students found it easy to approach of the company in question.

All in all it was an exciting and educational day and some of the students stated that they were eager for the next career fair event to be held with suggestions that more companies be invited.

 

Companies that were represented at the fair included: 

 

1	Alliance Capital Partners	Real Estate
2	Asus Technologies	IT
3	Bank of Africa	Banking
4	Bridge International Academies	Education
5	Bollore Africa Logistics	Logistics
6	Creative Consolidated Systems Limited	Cleaning Services
7	Crown Paints	Manufacturing
8	Dalberg – Global Development Advisors	Development Advisors
9	Deloitte & Touche	Financial Services
10	Discover your Career	Career consultants
11	Dry Associates	Advisors
12	Duma Works	Recruitment
13	Fairmont The Norfolk	Hospitality
14	General Electric	Multinational Conglomerate Corporation
15	Heritage Hotels	Hospitality
16	I & M Bank	Banking
17	Infama Insurance	Insurance
18	Intercontinental Hotel	Hospitality
19	International Sales Training Institute	Education
20	Insurance Regulatory	Parastatal
21	KAIG	Financial advisors
22	Kimberly Ryan	HR consultancy
23	Marriott Hotels	Hospitality
24	Open capital Advisors	Financial advisors
25	Pan Africa Insurance	Insurance
26	Post Bank	Banking
27	SC Johnson
28	Strathmore University	Education
29	Swiss Education Group	Education
30	Technobrain Limited	IT
31	UAP Kenya	Insurance
32	Unilever	Consumer goods
33	Vivo Energy	Energy
34	Eco tourism	Hospitality