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2025 Graduate Student & Postdoc Industry Recruitment Event (In-Person and Virtual)

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Graduate Student & Postdoc Industry Recruitment Events:

In Person: Wednesday, September 10th, 2025 in the Great Hall at the Ohio Union. 10:00am-2:00pm ET
Virtual: Thursday, October 23rd, 2025 on Handshake. 12:00 pm-4:00pm ET

*Combination deal available

Registration for the IN-PERSON GSPIRE will include:

  1. One 6-foot table, 2 chairs, 2 parking passes, food and drinks
  2. Included Access to Graduate Student and Postdoc Resume Book (soft copy file shared with industry registrants 1 week prior to the event)
  3. Assistance with scheduling interviews on-campus or virtually via Handshake in the weeks following the event
  4. University-wide promotion of the event to ~625 Postdocs and ~11,000 Ph.Ds and Master's students at The Ohio State University

Registration for the VIRTUAL BIG10 GSPIRE will include:

  1. Paid Access to a resume book (soft copy shared with industry registrants 1 week prior to the event, not included in base price)
  2. Assistance with virtual session scheduling
  3. Utilization of the Handshake career fair platform that provides each company with group information sessions (capacity=50 students/session) and one-on-one video conversations.  Sessions offered are only limited by the number of representatives you assign to the fair and the duration of the fair itself.
  4. BIG10 Academic Alliance-wide promotion of the event to over 176,000 graduate students across all participating 18 partner institutions.

Registration Fees

  • Corporate All Types (In Person Only)- $750
    Corporate All Types (In Person & Virtual Combo deal)- $875
    Corporate All Types (Virtual Only) - $250

 

  • Nonprofit Organization or Government Agency (In Person Only) - $375
    Nonprofit Organization or Government Agency (In Person & Virtual Combo deal) - $470
    Nonprofit Organization or Government Agency (Virtual Only) -$125
     
  • Internal OSU department, center, institute (In Person Only) - $75
    Internal OSU department, center, institute (In Person & Virtual Combo deal) - $100
    Internal OSU department, center, institute (Virtual Only) - $35

 

  • Resume Book (included within the in-person GSPIRE, virtual fair add on only) - $400

 

How many representatives will your organization be bringing to the in-person fair? (Max. 4)

Combination Deal

Employers who register for the in-person career fair can also register for the virtual fair on October 23rd at a reduced cost. 

NOTE: Employers who pursue the virtual event or the combo deal will be required to have a schedule (whether 1-1, group sessions or a mix) created in Handshake by no fewer than 4 weeks in advance of the scheduled event. Any employer who fails to do so will be placed in pending. Once a schedule is created, the employer will be moved back to approved.

 

 

 

 

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Please note that if you require any accommodations such as live captioning or interpretation to fully participate in this event, please contact asccareer@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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