Before the day
Pull the employer list from Handshake and mark the ten you actually care about. Research each enough to ask one specific question. Get your résumé reviewed, print a dozen on plain paper, and rehearse a 30-second introduction — name, year, major, what you're looking for. Plan an outfit a step above your daily norm.
At the fair
Start with an employer you're lukewarm about to warm up, then hit your priority list. Take a card or the recruiter's name, ask about next steps, and follow up by email within two days referencing what you talked about. Career Services staff circulate in Porter shirts if you freeze up.
In and around Porter Falls
Career Services works with every major, but the pattern is the same across them: a required internship, co-op or clinical placement before graduation, listed on each program page. Ninety-six percent of Porter undergraduates complete one, most of them with an employer in the Valley or the Cities.
The practical details
When: A fall and a spring all-majors fair, plus smaller industry-specific events. Bring: Printed résumés, a charged phone with a digital copy, and a short self-introduction. Prep help: Drop-in résumé review and a practice-pitch appointment the week before. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Career Services (Founders Union, Room 160). Call (715) 555–0205 or email careers@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.