{"id":161966,"date":"2025-09-30T13:23:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=161966"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:23:34","slug":"nearly-1000-wright-state-students-and-alumni-attend-fall-career-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/09\/30\/nearly-1000-wright-state-students-and-alumni-attend-fall-career-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1,000 Wright State students and alumni attend fall Career Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Hundreds of students and alumni connected with potential employers and explored career and internship opportunities at Wright State University\u2019s Fall 2025 Career and Internship Fair on Sept. 24 in the Student Union.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Hosted by Wright State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/career-services\">Career Services<\/a>, the fair attracted 88 employers who met with Wright State students and alumni about filling roles in their organizations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>James Wingate, a sophomore business management major, praised the Career Services staff for helping him prepare for the fair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThey prepped us very well. They told us how to sell yourself and gave us everything we needed to have,\u201d said Wingate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThese events are really important here on campus,\u201d said Kim Gilliam, Ed.D., director of career education and success. \u201cThat is what our purpose is here at Wright State \u2014 to help students find what it is they want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Shearer\u2019s Foods and the Dayton Dragons were two of the many employers who attended the fair for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Jeannene Schaffnit, the plant director at the new Shearer\u2019s Food facility in Moraine, said she was thrilled by the Wright State students she met at the fair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging as a new employer in the area,\u201d said Schaffnit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For more information about more career events and services, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/wright.edu\/career-services\">wright.edu\/career-services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of students and alumni connected with potential employers and explored career and internship opportunities at Wright State University\u2019s Fall 2025 Career and Internship Fair. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/09\/30\/nearly-1000-wright-state-students-and-alumni-attend-fall-career-fair\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":161970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,729,2034,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-around-campus","category-career-services","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161975,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161966\/revisions\/161975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}