 Hi, this is Lisa Valentino with CID and we are here at the 2019 Job Fair at Display Week 2019 in San Jose and I am here with Shilaxmi Hala who has put together this wonderful event for students to come by and to be able to interview with some of local and international companies who are seeking bright young talent for their company. So how are you doing today Shilaxmi? I'm good, thank you. How are you? I'm great. I'm doing great. So just wanted to ask you a few questions to kind of give everybody an idea what happens here at Display Week for the job fairs and what a great opportunity it is. Yeah it is, it is. So let's start with a little bit of background about you and tell me what it is that you do here at CID. So my name is Shilaxmi Hala and I work at SID headquarters which is put up in Campbell and I work as a project analyst. So since we are it's a very less stuff so we you know I work as a ticket of management as well as some kind of you know technical tasks so I have a mixture of both of them so I help my boss Tony and Prachi so I have a lot of you know reports going on reports you need to create a report and manage a report so I work on all of that and this is my first big project you know the job fair so I had of course I had a lot of help from from my SID headquarters Tony Prachi but it helped me to put through this but then I'm the main coordinator of you know managing everything planning and all about the SID job fair. Great and what was it that drew you to the job fair as a project? So basically last year they thought you know hey why not SID would come up with a job fair and then Shilaxmi has to take care of it. I was assigned and I'm like hey why not you know this is a great opportunity for me to learn and meet new people and all of that so I thought I'll take care of everything just all I need is just to support and whom to contact what to do a guidance and all of that so it's a great project it's a great project and it's nice it's doing as you can see it's all doing well so I'm happy about it. And then what is a little bit about your background how long have you been working with the society for information display? I'm working with SID for a year more than a year now so I actually I have done my masters here in Santa Clara University in engineering management so and then I took some kind of internship in SID and then I was turned into a full-time employee so yes I've been here since one year. Okay great thank you so let's talk a little bit about the job fair what is it what is it that the that's it and you are trying to accomplish with the job fair? So as you know it's a platform for you know for all the display related industries so we are trying to connect the young engineers and you know students who are newly graduated or who are about to graduate you know to connect and to give them an opportunity to you know get to know the employers or give an interview or at least to get in a job because being an international student I know how difficult it is to get a job so I'm just trying to help out give out to the community you know to the SID so that you know your students or anyone for that matter fact can get a job here that's going to be a so we are just focusing on that just providing a platform for them you know in this you have a networking event in the evening as you know so so you just go talk to them to the employers you you you get connected to them exchange the email address and all of that so that's how you start and build networking that's how you do networking right so it actually helps here in the being in the Bay Area so I kind of think that you know it's a great opportunity for us and for SID giving this platform for everyone you know to have a great career that's wonderful that's wonderful and how many companies are here interviewing today so we have 15 companies come have come here so we have pre-orient we have LG displays you know so displays and Apple I think so and so that many companies are here so 15 of them so as you can see yes and how many students or how many job applicants have come through here today how many signed up we had got more than a hundred candidates register for this job for and we have a 60 more than 60 people who have showed up to this job for so we are expecting more we still have two to three hours to go so I hope it crosses hundred and so then the job fair is that for people at all levels or is it mainly for younger or people that are new to their careers it's for everyone so we thought expanded to everyone so that everyone can have explore and know what it is what the job fair is so it's for international students as well so we have people coming up from you know Korea China and even from the US yes they have come to attend the display week the same time they want they're looking for a job opportunity around so yeah it is for students and I'm engineers and newly graduated students and all of that so it's for everyone so what is it that you think is the most exciting thing about what you're doing here everything what not I mean I'm excited about everything I do here so this so as I mentioned earlier that was a huge project for me so I'm excited about I was and I'm still excited about what I'm doing now so it keeps me occupied and it makes me to learn it's a learning stage for me so I have help all the help I have I need what I need I have help from the board of members and from the headquarters so it's been a great learning process for me so far so I'm happy to learn more and more as I go so yeah great I just have one more question for you what is it that you'd like everybody know to know about the society for information display other people here they're very welcoming they're they're very good they're very supportive of you they encourage you to do whatever you want so so for just a simple I would like to quote that you know if I want to do something that hey I want this has to be the job fair for example I need the setup how the job fair should be now what I what are the requirements I have I think it's best so they just said you know it's okay you do it it's it's it's up to you you know it's your responsibility we are okay with whatever you do we have we're gonna give you all the support whatever you need we're gonna give it everything to you so I like the people here I like the working environment and SID is a great platform for all the display related industries so I think it's a good good good workplace I love it wonderful thank you so much thank you so much appreciate you taking the time