Registration Open for Beacon High School Career Fair 2024 - Will You Display This Year?

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Registrations are open for the Beacon High School Career Fair 2024! This is a great chance to make an impression on kids in Beacon who are thinking about their careers at large, as well as local job prospects. Throughout the years, business regulars like Twins Barbershop, the Carpenters Union, drone flyers, A Little Beacon Blog, independent journalists and filmmakers, and others have tabled at this event.

“Last night, I had a dream that more artisans showed up this year,” said Katie, writer and publisher of A Little Beacon Blog. “They brought out tools and products they made for all to see.”

The annual career fair is on Friday, May 17th, 2024 from 10:30am to 1:30pm in the gymnasium. Signups free and are open for businesses, organizations, and individuals to participate.

Click to register for Beacon High School's 2024 Career Fair >

Included With Each Table

Participants will be provided with a table (6 ft.) on which they can display items that represent their career/profession and which can serve as talking pieces with students.  

Access to power is limited, but if needed, they will do their best to place you next to a power source.  Some extension cords are available, but consider bringing your own.

Set-up and breakfast will begin at 9:30am.  Lunch will be served around 11:30am.  

Deadline to register is Wednesday, May 1st.

Registration here for Beacon High School's 2024 Career Fair

2022 Beacon City School District Career Fair - Seeking Participants - All Careers Welcome

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Students exploring at the last in-person Beacon City School District (BCSD) Career Fair in 2019 before the shutdown. The 2022 Career Fair will be in-person this year.

The Beacon City School District is once again hosting its Career Fair in-person in the high school on May 27, 2022, after closing it due to the pandemic shut down. Registration is open now for business/organizations/professionals/artists to participants to sign up. This year, students are able to meet participants in person.

“I am very excited that we once again can plan for and run an in-person career fair,” said Michele R. Polhamus, School Counselor and Director of the Career Fair. “Any career is welcomed.”

The deadline to register is Friday, May 6th and can be done online.

In the past, presenters ranged from a variety of industries and included individuals like journalists, cinematographers, editors, podcasters, EMS professionals, land surveyors, local insurance agencies, barbers, hair stylists, and more.

Each participant will get a table on which they can display any items that represent their career and can serve as talking pieces with the students. Set-up for the event will begin at 9am, and a light breakfast will be served. A light lunch will be available towards the middle of the event.

While there will be some access to power, it will be very limited. Extension cords are encouraged if power is needed.

Interested participants can sign up online here. There is no cost to participate.

2022 BHS Career Fair Register

Beacon Career Fair A Success With Teens, Businesses and Organizations

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There was great turnout at Beacon High School’s Career Fair today! Plenty of interested students asked questions... and foraged for free cookies. A Little Beacon Blog bribed passers-by with stickers, and for the writers and bloggers in the house (they are usually very shy and quiet when approaching the table), we gave writers our tote bag.

Each year we are happy to engage with teens to show them the resources they didn’t know about yet, like our recent article about the (free) Dia Teens Art Program, and the Open Sketch session at the Beacon Library. One student who visited the table is about to be published in the Poughkeepsie Journal for an article she wrote!

Salon Dae (the salon near Dutchess Airport) was in attendance with opportunities for hair stylists, and did braiding on the spot. Next to Salon Dae was Twins Barber Shop from Beacon’s Main Street, clipping away. The Twins always draw the largest crowd!

Across the way were the fire 🔥 fighters, who were giving demonstrations using a smoke machine. Antalek & Moore Insurance brought their corn hole game and had quite the competitions going on. For the rest of us, it was hard to compete with all that action!

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The EMS Education table was in a good spot to reach interested prospective first responders, who need the education first to even get into the field. Other first responders included the Beacon Volunteer Ambulance Corps and the Beacon Police.

A Little Beacon Blog’s table was in between Wingate’s caregivers table, answering questions for men and women who might want to go into nursing and caregiving, which we learned provides job security as there has been a shortage of nurses, we were told. Dutchess County Tourism was on our other side - where we learned all sorts of things like how they are organizing workshops for businesses to help educate about best practices, like ADA compliance for websites. Good stuff, those busy bees are doing over there!

If you’re a business who wants to represent at the Beacon Career Fair next year and reach the students, email the organizer, school counselor Michele Polhamus at polhamus.m@beaconk12.org. The notification about the Career Fair usually goes out in March-ish for this annual May event.