Texas A&M at Qatar hosts Education City-wide job fair for QF partner university students, alumni – The Peninsula

Texas A&M at Qatar hosts Education City-wide job fair for QF partner university students, alumni – The Peninsula

Doha: Students and alumni from Qatar Foundation (QF) partner universities attended a job fair hosted at Texas A&M University at Qatar to meet and network with representatives from more than 80 organisations.

Organised by Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Georgetown University in Qatar, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Northwestern University in Qatar, Texas A&M at Qatar and Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, the two-day event was open to current students and alumni of all partner universities.

Organisation representatives present at the job fair talked with attendees about their companies and showcased potential internship and job opportunities. Attendees were able to ask questions about the company, learn more about future opportunities and share their résumés with the organisation representatives.

According to organisers, more than 500 students and alumni from all over Education City attended over the two days.

Students were excited about the opportunity to meet with prospective employers and learn more about the companies they were interested in.

Tanieshaa Shrestha, a journalism senior at Northwestern University in Qatar, said, “I’m glad we had the opportunity to meet people from high-profile companies at the job fair that I was interested to network with and learn more about future opportunities from. I was able to speak to representatives