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Recruiting Students
FAA Career Services supports all students in the College of Fine and Applied Arts. If you are looking to hire students regardless of major, we invite you to attend events hosted by the universitywide Career Center. These fairs and showcases will help connect you with Illinois talent across campus.
The Career Center's Fairs
The Career Center’s Fairs
- Illini Career and Internship Fair: Connect with students across all disciplines in this spring fair typically held in April.
- Part-Time Job Fair: Recruit students for nontechnical, part-time local jobs in the Urbana-Champaign area. This fair is for employers who have multiple job opportunities available. This fair is traditionally held in early September and late January, although this has varied depending on demand.
- Educators’ Job Fair: The University of Illinois and Eastern Illinois University partner to connect school districts and organizations to teacher candidates and school services personnel from both institutions. The fair is held during the spring semester (early March), and the host site rotates between campuses.
Check Handshake @ Illinois seasonally for registration details.
Postgraduation Hiring Data
Creativity, innovative problem-solving, collaborative emphasis, effective decision-making, critical analysis, technological expertise—these qualities are in demand by billion-dollar corporations, nonprofits, universities, world-class performing groups, startups, and distinguished organizations. Our graduates are making a difference at them all. A degree in the arts focuses on these critical components for success, and students are also encouraged to discover their identities as members of a global community, create distinctive work, identify connections, adapt, and see both the fine details and the big picture.
Our graduates work as toy designers, producers, recording engineers, yoga instructors, historic preservationists, video artists, mechanical engineers, scholars, choreographers, art teachers, green energy consultants, theatre critics, construction managers, professors, artistic directors, surveyors, event planners, conductors, lighting designers, arts administrators, and much more!
View demographic enrollment data about the Illinois student body along with information on postgraduation employment and salaries.
Hiring Global Talent
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has one of the largest international student populations in the country. Read our guides to assist you in recruiting this talented student demographic.
Post a Position
For more details and instructions on how to post a job opening, see the Hire Illini Handshake information page. The Career Center staff cannot forward job openings to students directly or share them via email. When approving job listings posted to Handshake, we follow all established rules and policies by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Career Services Council at UIUC, and the ethical principles for recruitment established by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). See the links below for details on these policies.