Armed with a recently revamped résumé and knowledge collected from coursework, University of Mary Washington junior Abigail Fuller made the rounds at UMW’s 2025 Career and Internship Fair.
“My dream is to work in a museum someday, ideally in my favorite place in the world, Washington, D.C.,” Fuller, a history major with a minor in museum studies, wrote in an introductory blog post for one of her classes.
Along with hundreds of fellow UMW students, she came one step closer to fulfilling her professional goals by attending this month’s fair, which featured 45 organizations from industries as varied as education, health care and finance. Fanned out across the Cedric Rucker University Center’s Chandler Ballroom, they drew potential employees to information tables with candy, snacks and colorful tchotchkes, like highlighters, bookmarks and pens. But the four-hour biannual fair, hosted by the Center for Career and Professional Development (CCPD), has a serious side, aiming to match companies with open positions to students looking to fill them.
“Hands-on events like these are so critical to students, particularly UMW students who are passionate, driven and seek those interpersonal relationships that will set them up for success,” said CCPD Student Experience Manager Emily Burke ’15. “I’m so encouraged to see them interact with a diverse range of employers who actively want to hire students and alumni from Mary Washington.” Read more.