Career fairs and expos
The University of Canterbury’s Career Fairs and Expos are an excellent way of raising your organisation’s profile with future graduates.
During the academic year, we host a series of career fairs that include the Business and Arts Careers Fair, Law Recruitment Evening, STEM Careers Fair and Volunteering Expo.
For further information about each of these events please click the tabs below:
Each year the University of Canterbury, UC Careers partners with Volunteering Canterbury and the UCSA to host a Volunteering Expo for registered not-for-profit organisations here on campus.
This event provides an excellent platform for organisations looking for new volunteering recruits to showcase the opportunities they have available and the benefits of volunteering. It also provides our students and staff striving to make a change, a chance to connect.
For enquiries about the Volunteering Expo, please contact Georgia Watson from the UC Events Team events@canterbury.ac.nz
We have experienced strong attendance numbers over the past few years. Registrations are FREE.
REGISTER HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/volunteering-expo
Event Details
| Date | Wednesday 2 August 2023 |
|---|---|
| Venue | Undercroft, Puaka-James Hight Building |
| Setup | 10:30am - 11.15am |
| Exhibition hours | 11:30 - 2:30pm |
| Pack up | 2:30 - 3:00pm |
| Fee | Free |
Contacts
If you are already affiliated with Volunteering Canterbury please contact:
Glenda Martin
Outreach and Marketing Manager
03 366 2442 or 0800 865 268
outreach@volcan.org.nz
For enquiries about the Volunteering Expo, please contact Georgia Watson from the UC Events Team events@canterbury.ac.nz
Registrations close TBC
Included with your stand:
- Table, 2x chairs, tablecloth, wireless internet connection
- Drop off zone close to the venue and allocated car parking on campus
- Marketing to students
General Career Fair
Whether you are actively recruiting quality graduates or you are offering summer work and internships and keen to raise your organisation's profile for future recruitment, the University of Canterbury's General Career Fair is ideal for you!
The General Career Fair allows you to meet and engage with prospective graduate employees and interns. To introduce and market your organisation and inform students of employment and career opportunities.
It will contribute to increasing awareness of and raising your organisation’s profile, enabling you to provide UC students with your knowledge and advice and share your organisation's key recruitment information.
Event Details
| Date | Wednesday 2 August 2023 |
|---|---|
| Venue | Undercroft, Puaka-James Hight Building |
| Setup | 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
| Fee | $544.50 + GST |
REGISTER HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/uc-careers-general-careers-fair-2023
Registrations close on Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Contacts
For all enquiries regarding this event please contact:
Employment Coordinator
UC Careers
careers@canterbury.ac.nz
Telephone: DDI 03 3643310
Mobile: 027 217 7851
Whether you are actively recruiting quality graduates or keen to raise your organisation's profile for future recruitment, the University of Canterbury's Business and Arts Careers Fair is ideal for you!
The Business and Arts Careers Fair allows you to meet and engage with prospective graduate employees and interns. To introduce and market your organisation and inform students of employment and career opportunities.
It will contribute to increasing awareness of and raising your organisation’s profile, enabling you to provide UC students with your knowledge and advice and share your organisation's key recruitment information.
Event details
| Date: | Tuesday 14 March 2023 |
| Time: | 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Venue: | Engineering Core |
| Fee: | $544.50 + GST |
| Registrations: | Registrations close on 14 February 2023 |
We require a brief statement about your organisation and your opportunities. You are welcome to include any helpful links, and this information is to be displayed in an online publication for our students.
Register for Business and Arts Careers Fair | Taiopenga 2023
Whether you are actively recruiting quality graduates or keen to raise your organisation's profile for future recruitment, the University of Canterbury's Law Recruitment Fair is ideal for you!
The Law Recruitment Careers Fair lets you meet and engage with prospective graduate employees and summer and winter clerks. To introduce and market your organisation and inform students of employment and career opportunities.
It will increase awareness of and raise your organisation's profile, enable you to provide UC students with your knowledge and advice and share your organisation's key recruitment information.
Event details
| Date: | Tuesday 14 March 2023 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
| Venue: | Engineering Core |
| Fees: | $544.50 +GST |
| Registration: | Registrations close on 14 February 2023 |
We require a brief statement about your organisation and your opportunities. You are welcome to include any helpful links, and this information is to be displayed in an online publication for our students.
Law Recruitment Evening | Taiopenga 2023
Whether you are actively recruiting quality graduates or keen to raise your organisation's profile for future recruitment, the University of Canterbury's STEM Career Fair is ideal for you!
Meet and engage with prospective graduate employees and interns. To introduce and market your organisation and inform students of employment and career opportunities.
It will increase awareness of and raise your organisation’s profile, enabling you to provide UC students with your knowledge and advice and share your organisation's key recruitment information.
Event details
| Date: | Wednesday 3 May 2023 |
| Time: | 10:30 am - 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | Engineering Core |
| Fee: | $914.25 + GST |
| Registrations: | Please click on the registration link to go onto the waitlist |
We require a brief statement about your organisation and your opportunities. You are welcome to include any helpful links; this information will be displayed in an online publication for our students.
Register for STEM Careers Fair | Taiopenga 2023
Please join our waitlist as we will shortly be confirming some additional capacity at this event.
STEM Careers Fair 2023
STEM Location 1: Rātā (formerly Engineering Core)
Booth Number: Company / Organisation:
- 60 Abley
- 16 AECOM
- 17 Aurecon New Zealand Limited
- 40 Beca Ltd
- 15 Contact Energy
- 26 Cook Costello
- 29 Cortek Ltd
- 39 CPB Contractors
- 30 Crossfire
- 41 Cuttriss Consultants Limited
- 8 CWF Hamilton & Co Ltd (HamiltonJet)
- 23 Davis Ogilvie & Partners Ltd
- 9 Dawn Aerospace
- 43 Downer NZ
- 44 DTCE Structural Engineers
- 48 Egis
- 49 Engenium Consulting Engineers
- 18 ENGEO
- 38 Engineering Design Consultants Ltd
- 1 ENI Engineering Ltd - Christchurch
- 6 Enphase Energy
- 37 EQ Struc Ltd
- 98 Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
- 19 Fletcher Construction
- 100 Fonterra
- 36 FRAMECAD
- 47 Frequency NZ
- 35 Fulton Hogan
- 20 GHD
- 21 HEB Construction
- 42 Hilti New Zealand
- 91 HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury
- 45 Inovo Projects
- 34 Kotahi Studio
- 14 MainPower New Zealand Limited
- 5 MEL 2020 Ltd
- 13 Mercury NZ
- 96 Methanex New Zealand Ltd
- 33 MSC Consulting Engineers
- 4 New Zealand Defence Force
- 97 OceanaGold
- 46 OCTA
- 56 Oji Fibre Solutions
- 3 Osho
- 25 Pattle Delamore Partners
- 95 Pocket
- 93 Powell Fenwick
- 12 Powerco
- 94 Quoin Structural Consultants Limited
- 55 Richards Consulting Engineers Limited
- 28 Riley Consultants Ltd
- 54 Robert Bird Group
- 7 Rocket Lab Ltd
- 53 Schick Civil Construction
- 2 Scott Technology
- 52 Silvester Clark Limited
- 24 Stantec New Zealand
- 51 Structex
- 11 Switch Lighting
- 22 Tonkin + Taylor
- 10 Transpower NZ Ltd
- 32 Tui Technology Ltd
- 90 UC Careers
- 92 UC Engineering Management Programmes
- 57 Waimakariri District Council
- 58 Waka Kotahi - NZ Transport Agency
- 59 Wellington City Council
- 99 Winstone Pulp International Limited
- 27 Woods
- 50 Worley
- 31 Wyma Engineering NZ Ltd
STEM Location 2:Ernest Rutherford
Booth Number: Company / Organisation:
- 62 Allied Telesis Labs
- 71 Analytics and Research in Government
- 85 Boffa Miskell Limited
- 72 Citadel Securities
- 83 Cookie Time
- 73 Datacom
- 84 Energy Skills Aotearoa
- 75 Ernst and Young Group Limited
- 76 FAST NZ (Fast Enterprises, LLC)
- 89 Firstgas Group
- 63 FIS
- 81 Fisher & Paykel Appliances
- 61 Fleetpin
- 68 FNZ
- 74 IMC Trading
- 88 IPONZ
- 64 Jade Software Corporation Limited
- 70 KPMG
- 66 Lumin
- 69 Nemesys Limited
- 67 NZOHS
- 65 Optiver
- 87 Paihau Robinson Research Institute
- 77 PwC NZ
- 78 Seequent
- 79 Summer of Tech
- 80 Trimble
- 82 Volunteering Canterbury
- 86 Water New Zealand
Business and Arts Careers Fair
- ANZ Institutional
- Audit New Zealand
- Baker Tilly Staples Rodway Auckland Limited
- BDO Christchurch
- Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
- CPA Australia
- Defence Careers
- Deloitte
- Dept of Corrections
- Ernst and Young Group Limited
- Faculty of Education
- Findex
- Fluid Recruitment
- FNZ
- Fonterra
- Foodstuffs South Island
- Fulton Hogan
- Grant Thornton
- Hays Recruitment
- KPMG
- Mainfreight
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) Hīkina Whakatutuki
- Ministry of Social Development
- Nexia Christchurch Limited
- PwC New Zealand
- Ryman Healthcare
- Streamliners NZ Ltd
- Volunteering Canterbury
Law Recruitment Evening
- Anderson Lloyd
- Anthony Harper
- Buddle Findlay
- Chapman Tripp
- Community Law Canterbury
- Corcoran French Lawyers
- Defence Recruiting
- Deloitte
- Denton Kensington Swan
- Department Of Corrections
- DLA Piper
- Ernst and Young Group Limited
- Government Legal Network
- Harmans Lawyers
- ILANZ
- IPLS (Institute of Professional Legal Studies)
- Lane Neave
- MinterEllisonRuddWatts
- Mortlock McCormack Law Limited
- Parry Field Lawyers
- Public Defence Service
- PwC New Zealand
- Russell McVeagh
- Ryman Healthcare
- Saunders Robinson Brown
- Simpson Grierson
- Tavendale and Partners
- The College of Law
- Volunteering Canterbury
- Wotton + Kearney
UC Careers Business and Arts Careers Fair 2020 Attendees
- Audit New Zealand
- Baker Tilly Staples Rodway
- BDO Christchurch
- Chartered Accountants Australia + New Zealand
- Christchurch City Council
- CPA Australia
- Deloitte
- Department of Internal Affairs
- EY
- FNZ Limited
- Fulton Hogan
- KPMG New Zealand
- Leech & Partners
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- New Zealand Defence Force
- Nexia New Zealand
- PACE
- PWC
- Ryman Healthcare
- Signal ICT
- Study opportunities – UC Stalls
- Study opportunities – UC Stalls
- The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
- The Treasury
- Trimble
- UC Careers
UC Careers Law and Criminal Justice Recruitment Evening 2020 Attendees
- Anderson Lloyd
- Bell Gully
- Buddle Findlay
- Chapman Tripp
- Community Law Canterbury
- Corcoran French
- Crown Law Office
- Deloitte
- Department Of Corrections
- Duncan Cotterill
- EY
- Harmans Lawyers
- IPLS - Institute of Professional Legal Studies
- Lane Neave
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Mortlock McCormack Law
- New Zealand Defence Force
- New Zealand Law Society
- Public Defence Service
- PWC
- Saunders Robinson Brown
- Simpson Grierson
- Study Opportunities – UC Stalls
- Study Opportunities – UC Stalls
- The College of Law
- UC Careers
- Wynn Williams Christchurch
UC Careers Online STEM Career Fair 2020 Attendees
- Applied Data Science, School of Maths and Stats
- Beca
- Downer NZ
- EnergySkills NZ
- ENGEO
- Master of Engineering in Management (MEM)
- New Zealand Defence Force Engineering
- Northrop Consulting Engineers
- SIGNAL ICT Grad School
- Silvester Clark Limited
- Summer of Tech
- Todd Energy
- Transpower NZ Ltd
- University of Canterbury Business School
- University of Canterbury, Bachelor of Product Design
- WSP New Zealand Limited
- Wyma Engineering
- Xero
UC Careers Volunteering Expo 2020 Attendees
- Aviva Family Violence Services
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Canterbury Omega Leos
- CCC Graffiti Programme
- Co-curricular Record (CCR)
- Delta Community Support Trust
- Dementia Canterbury
- Department of Corrections
- English Language Partners
- Forest & Bird Youth
- GirlGuiding New Zealand
- Greening the Rubble
- Heart Kids
- IHC
- Imagination Station
- Lifeline
- Post Natal Depression
- Recreate NZ
- Scouts New Zealand
- Shakti
- SPCA
- Special Needs Library
- St John
- Student Volunteer Army (SVA)
- Tenants Protection Association
- UN Youth Canterbury
- Volunteering Canterbury
- Youthline
