An SC State student meets with a recruiter at the 2025 Career Day Extravaganza.
More than 60 organizations to offer employment, internship and graduate school opportunities
ORANGEBURG, S.C. — South Carolina State University students and recent graduates will have an opportunity
to connect with more than 100 recruiters Thursday, Sept. 24, during the SC State Career
Center’s Career Day Extravaganza.
The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Smith-Hammond-Middleton Memorial
Center.
More than 100 recruiters representing 60 agencies, businesses, industries, school
districts and graduate schools have registered to participate.
Banking, law enforcement, construction, automotive and aeronautical manufacturing,
food service and tourism are among the career fields that will be represented.
The Career Day Extravaganza is designed to provide students and recent graduates with
opportunities to explore:
Internships.
Cooperative education opportunities.
Full- and part-time employment.
Graduate school opportunities.
The dress code is business professional.
Career Week activities
The Career Day Extravaganza concludes the Career Center’s Fall 2026 Career Week activities,
which began Monday, Sept. 21.
As part of the week, the Career Center sponsored “Professor for a Day” training and
development seminars featuring career professionals from various backgrounds. The
sessions were designed to help students enhance their career development skills while
exploring internships and other career pathways.
Career professionals visited classes Tuesday in targeted areas of the School of Business
and Information Systems and the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
and Transportation.
Additional sessions were scheduled Wednesday in targeted areas of the College of Education,
Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Agriculture, Family and Consumer
Sciences.
For more information about the Career Day Extravaganza, call the SC State Career Center
at 803-536-7031 or visit the center on the second floor of Belcher Hall.
