CASPA 2017 High Tech
Job Fair Report
By Xiaodong Zhang, Board of
Director, Chief Financial Officer, CASPA
CASPA 2017 High Tech
Job Fair was successfully held on Saturday, May 13, 2017 from 10 am till 4 pm
at Crowne Plaza San Jose-Silicon Valley, CA.
18 companies attended this year’s job fair, including Intel,
Huawei, TSMC, Tektronix, MediaTek, OSRAM, Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit,
SMIC, Kilopass Technology, YMTC/XMC, Focal Tech, Tech Code, Silego Technology,
SIPO, GUC, Hefei Semiconductor Industry Park and King Semi. Many of them are
also CASPA sponsors. These companies have numerous opening positions at various
levels, from Vice president/CTO, technical and marketing/sales
managers/directors, system architects, circuit designers, FAEs, layout
engineers, process engineers, web developers and more.
This job fair offers an excellent face-face communication opportunity
for the job seeks and hiring companies. 9 companies are invited to give a brief
introduction about their company and answered questions from the audience. Some
companies have the hiring managers come to the job fair. If the right
applicants were found, they could interviewed by the hiring managers at a
separate room. Many applicants also take advantage of the on-site opportunities
to meet with the hiring managers directly. A few companies filled some critical
positions on-site.
More than 600 job seekers attended the job fair. To help the
job seekers with their job hunting and career planning, three career coaching
seminars were offered by three senior career coaches. The topics of the
seminars are: “How to do the right career change”, “Using Personality Science
to Understand Why They Hire” and “7 Habits of Highly Effective Job
Seekers”. In addition, a free
resume-critique service was offered by an experienced career coach to help the
job seekers for polish their resume. A job seeker could get advices about
his/her resume from an experienced career coach.
Junzhao Lei, the 2017 Chairman & President of CASPA, was
the Chair of this year’s Job Fair; Song Xue, Brand Wang, Danny Hua and Connie
Miao helped all the presentations and seminars. Xiaodong Zhang and Jessica
Tseng were the Facility managers, Albert Yian in charge of press release. Yang
Zhang was editor-in-chief of the proceedings, John Lu and Jin Wang organized
the team for registration. William Kou
was the MC for the Job Fair Exhibition Hall program for the day. A lot of other CASPA board members and
volunteers also helped throughout the event for different functions.
CASPA is proud to organize its 2017 Job Fair as it delivered
valuable results to the communities, including the hiring companies and job
seekers. This job fair helped corporate
sponsors acquire talents to join their work force to grow their businesses. It
also offers job seekers a great opportunity to find rewarding jobs and get
career advices from career coaches.
CASPA would thank its corporate sponsors, all 18 participating
companies, and all the attendees for their great support. It would also like to
greatly thank each and every member of its 2017 Job Fair Organization Team and
all the Board members, volunteers of CASPA for their hard work and
dedication.