In what may be a record for a single-day job fair, nearly 900 UCSB students attended Career Services’ Winter Career Fair on Tuesday, Jan. 22, in Corwin Pavilion. There were 58 employers represented at the fair, including Citrix Online, Intel, Microsoft, AT&T, Panda Express, the Peace Corps, Macy’s, and Hyundai Capital America. A number of the recruiters in attendance are alumni of UC Santa Barbara.
Bob Gilbert, a UCSB Ph.D. alum and a Software Developer at Microsoft, was among the recruiters at the 2013 Winter Career Fair at Corwin Pavilion.“The Career Fair is really an excellent opportunity to make initial connections with some of these employers and recruiters,” said Career Services Director Ignacio Gallardo. “While job offers probably aren’t going to be offered here today by these employers, the connections you make here are very important.”
The GradPost interviewed a few recruiters Tuesday, including Bob Gilbert, a Software Developer at Microsoft. Gilbert earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science (Security Lab) from UCSB in September 2011 and was hired by Microsoft thereafter. His advisor was Dr. Richard Kemmerer.
“We’re primarily looking for people with technical passion,” Gilbert said. “What is most compelling to me about this company is that I could turn the research I was doing in school into something that would be used by a wide variety of people,” he added.
“I am actually a developer in Windows Security and to be able to turn my work into something that’s going to be touched by a million people is very compelling,” Gilbert said. “Everything you build here will be put into production and will be used by a lot of people.”
View the video here for more on the Winter Career Fair.