With this being my senior year, I am working on moving into the next stage of my life.  One main aspect of this is job hunting.  As a history major, I am seeing some issues facing me down.  I feel like being in the college of LAS leaves a person at a distinct disadvantage, and I feel like our great University here is partially at fault.

Currently, I live with a Computer Science major, a Civil Engineer, and a Business Administration and Marketing double major.  Seeing the opportunities that exist for my roommates makes me quite jealous to be honest.  They all have their career fairs and things like simplicity to help them in their job search.  The only sort of thing like this that I have been able to find in my years here so far, was a career info night.  It was not a career fair like my roommates look forward to, there were no resumes to be handed out, no companies present, instead it was a very informal night to meet and chat for just a minute or two with someone who may have gone through school with the same major as you.  I ended up talking to someone who went to school as a history major and someone who was also involved with information technology (like myself again, informatics minor), and it seemed like I could learn something from him.  That is until I talked to him and he told me he ended up working at a hospital selling medical supplies then he thanked me for my time and told me to move along.

Now there is the possibility that I have been oblivious to some opportunities that exist for people in LAS, however, I then blame the lack of publicity for my ignorance.  I have been trying to get some help in the job search and I have been actively seeking help or places that could assist in my search, and other than the random semi useful occurances at the Career Center, I have been striking out. 

I realize that making a career fair like the one for the College of Business or the Engineering Career fair would be quite difficult for the College of LAS because of the sheer number of widely differing majors in the college, but I feel like there should be a way to get over this roadblock.  Maybe some of the majors could be grouped together, like they are for graduation, and have a few smaller career fairs that focus on certain aspects of the College of LAS.

If anyone is aware of options that I have not mentioned, please feel free to leave them in the comments, it would help myself and I am sure some other people as well.