Editorial

Editor's Note: Job fair cancelled

Melissa Vasey - Editor-in-Chief

The fact that TRU canceled the job fair because employers weren’t willing to pay up is disheartening.

As a university, TRU should be supporting its students and ensuring they have a real chance at a future when they walk across that convocation stage in June. Instead, TRU is burning down bridges on behalf of its students.

The job fair is a service provided for students, and should be seen as such. While making employers pay made sense in a past where hundreds of companies competed for a limited number of spots, it certainly doesn’t make sense now.

Make a simple requirement that the employer must be trying to fill at least two positions, and allow them to participate in the job fair with that inherent value.

Honestly, what are the employer participants even paying for? Other than a few ads to promote the event, a job fair has literally no cost. Pull those tables and chairs out of storage, set them up in the Grand Hall, and invite employers to show off their stuff. Voila, job fair.

Giving an employer free exposure is not the end of the world if it means helping students network and secure job placements. After the thousands of dollars each student has invested into this establishment, the least it can do is attempt to connect students with employers. The students of TRU deserve this job fair.

And if student welfare isn’t of concern to TRU, its reputation should be. It’s going to be awfully embarrassing for TRU when a huge portion of former students apply for EI in a few months.

Good luck recruiting freshman after word gets out about that.