So, as long as I can get permission and money to pay for it, I will be attending a large Sports Job fair towards the end of the month at the Prudential center and I'm really excited. All sorts of teams from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania will be there to talk about positions and the ticket comes with a ticket to see the Devils vs Maple Leafs that night. This is pretty much my dream so I am really excited, both the Mets and Yankees will be there so hopefully I can have a good time and find a few cool jobs or maybe an internship.

This would also be my first official hockey march, so I'm excited about that as well.

So, just to make sure I understand this... it's a job fair hosted by sports teams on the day of a hockey game that you get to go to? That is wicked awesome, man. 

thing1 : Well, the job fair is inside the arena before the match.

OK. So I understood it correctly. 

That sounds so cool, dude. You'll have to let us know how it goes. 

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Well this absolutely sucks. At first, I thought I woukldnt be able to get the ticket because I would need to go to my agency in the snow to pick it up and they might close early, but I made it and we went to finally order the ticket once they got the money approved but the career fair one was sold out, so this is really lame. They got the approval last week but had to wait until today for the money.

They did say they will pay for me to go to the game itself which is actually a bit cheaper without the career fair ticket, but I was really looking foward to the career fair, and I doubt theres really a point to going all the way to New jersey, a bus, a subway, and then new jersey transit just for a Devils game.

The agency told me to look up other sporting events and they would try to get tickets for it, and it turns out the islander and rangers are playing tomorrow, and they said they would look into it. In the end they bought a ticket to the devils game and said they will talk to somebody about getting me into the fair.

its kind of sad though, if there's a 90% chance I can't go to the fair, I'd much rather go to a rangers islanders match that's 2 free buses from my house instead of a devils maple leafs match that's a free bus and train, but then an expensive outer state train and walk. It would be cheaper, quicker, and a better match, so hopefully they can get me into the fair.

The hockey match starts at 7:30, though if I were to go to the career fair which starts at 12:30, I would have to leave my house at 9 am. I got the call from my agency saying they managed to get me into the fair at 10:30. So not only did I leave my house almost two hours late, but I had to go to my agency to print copies of my resume, and after that I had to take a train and then an outer state train.

So I missed the main registration and then an hour long guest speaking panel and just made it to the fair now. The first stand I found was for the Mets, so I'll probably spend most if ny time here, and I can also see a stand for the 76ers, though I doubt I would visit them.

Hopefully the match is good too.

The fair was really cool though I had only been able to go up to three teams because of the time and they were the Mets, Yankees, and Red Bulls. I'm not going to even apply foe the Red Bulls job because it requires a minimum 100 phone calls a day, and I wouldn't be able to do that at all. Something was good about both the Mets and Yankees, for the Yankees, I was talking about the stuff I did at st johns for the NCAA and my volunteer time with MLB, and they went over my resume there and they said that they would call me within a few weeks to see if I could use an interview.

Nothing like that happened with the Mets, they just told me to go to teamwork website and look foe jobs there, which is where I got my ladt interview from. Bit there were two things about that. First, they said that instead of applying there, I would find what I like and email Human Resources right away and tell them about me and the position. It also really helped that unlike the other teams, the actual hiring manager of HR was the one there, so that could really help.