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Step 1: Find out about the offer
- The flyer provides an overview of what the KIT Career Fair 2026 has to offer – find out about the various booth packages, additional services, and prices.
- Further details can be found in the Service Description.
- Important: The GTC of the Career Service Website of KIT apply exclusively to bookings for the KIT Career Fair. Please read these before making your binding booking and contact karrieremesse@kit.edu by email if you have any questions.
Step 2: Get answers to your questions
Do you have any questions about the KIT Career Fair's offerings and format? Do you need advice on choosing the right type of booth? We are here to help:
- Many common questions are addressed and answered in the FAQ at the bottom of this page under “Booking.”
- If you still have questions, please write to us at karrieremesse@kit.edu.
Step 3: Book your participation
Starting on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 9:00 a.m., we will open the webshop for the KIT Career Fair, and you can book your desired package while supplies last.Good to know:
In order to offer a diverse selection for students of all disciplines, the available booth spaces are allocated according to the disciplines sought. Spaces will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
To ensure your booking is successful, you should therefore:
How to book:1) Log in and check that your billing information is up to date.2) Select the subject area for which you will be bringing vacancies to the KIT Career Fair. If there are several possible subject areas, select the one in which you are advertising the most vacancies.
3) Select the trade fair day that suits you best:
4) Select a stand type: Basic stand, Pagoda, or Premium Pagoda.5) Select additional services if desired: additional job ads in the job exchange, research in student profiles. You can also book additional services later.6) Check your details and submit your booking request.7) Your booking is binding as soon as you receive a booking confirmation from us by email.
In order to offer a diverse selection for students of all disciplines, the available booth spaces are allocated according to the disciplines sought. Spaces will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
To ensure your booking is successful, you should therefore:
- Have your known login details ready or register your company in good time before booking starts in order to receive login details.
- ensure that you are authorized to make bookings for your company, as bookings made in the web shop are binding.
- have decided in advance which subject area quota(s) and which trade fair day are suitable for you.
How to book:1) Log in and check that your billing information is up to date.2) Select the subject area for which you will be bringing vacancies to the KIT Career Fair. If there are several possible subject areas, select the one in which you are advertising the most vacancies.
3) Select the trade fair day that suits you best:
- There are no thematic focuses; both trade fair days are open to all industries.
- Each company can only participate on one trade fair day.
- If your preferred specialty is already fully booked on one trade fair day, you can be placed on the waiting list or book a place that may still be available on the other trade fair day. Unfortunately, it is not possible to do both at the same time.
4) Select a stand type: Basic stand, Pagoda, or Premium Pagoda.5) Select additional services if desired: additional job ads in the job exchange, research in student profiles. You can also book additional services later.6) Check your details and submit your booking request.7) Your booking is binding as soon as you receive a booking confirmation from us by email.
What makes the KIT Career Fair special
This video showcases several companies that participated in the 2025 KIT Career Fair. They discuss topics such as how often they have attended, the highlights they particularly enjoyed at the fair and why they would recommend that other companies attend too.
Contact and Support
We are happy to answer any questions you may have – please email us at karrieremesse@kit.edu. We are available Monday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.We look forward to seeing you at the next KIT Career Fair.Sarah Schramm (Marketing), Christine Schehl (Corporate Support), Jette Leonhardt (Project Lead) and Stefanie Valter (Project Assistant)
Questions?
General
What is the KIT Career Fair?
The KIT Career Fair is the annual company contact fair at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It is organized by the KIT Career Service. The fair is aimed at students, doctoral candidates, alumnae and alumni of all disciplines and offers them the opportunity to find out about potential employers and career entry. At the same time, it offers you as a company a platform to present yourself to qualified junior staff with vacancies and information on the application process, recruiting and career paths in your company.
Please note that the fair is intended exclusively for recruiting purposes.
Please note that the fair is intended exclusively for recruiting purposes.
What is the purpose of the KIT Career Fair?
The purpose of the KIT Career Fair is to bring you into contact with future young professionals. Your presence at the fair should therefore be exclusively for information and recruiting purposes - from internships to direct entry, you can showcase all the opportunities that your company offers future employees.
Tip: In addition to HR personnel, also bring colleagues from specialist departments to the fair, as this is always in particular demand from KIT students.
Tip: In addition to HR personnel, also bring colleagues from specialist departments to the fair, as this is always in particular demand from KIT students.
When will the next KIT Career Fair take place?
The KIT Career Fair usually takes place in May, the date for the next fair is May 19 and 20, 2026. The fair is open to participants on both days between 12 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Where does the KIT Career Fair take place?
The KIT Career Fair takes place on the South Campus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) as an open-air event on the forum in front of the Audimax.
What does the setting of the KIT Career Fair look like?
The special thing about the KIT Career Fair is the festival atmosphere: The fair takes place as a job open-air and not as a classic fair with hall flair. This means that the KIT Career Fair meets the needs of the young audience, while at the same time enabling a more sustainable and contemporary event organization. As a company, you have your own fixed area - be it with your own pagoda or with a bar table in the communal tent. The area is complemented by game stations such as table football, seating areas and food trucks to offer you various opportunities to make contacts.
The KIT Career Fair takes place as an open-air event in all weathers, so please consider this when making your booking decision.
The KIT Career Fair takes place as an open-air event in all weathers, so please consider this when making your booking decision.
To what extent has the KIT Career Fair become more sustainable?
In times of energy crises and climate change, a large, temporary exhibition tent that has to be heated or air-conditioned depending on the weather seems out of date. We have therefore opted for a much more energy-efficient open-air event, saving hundreds of liters of heating oil, among other things.
In order to avoid waste, we have reduced our printed materials and offer you, for example, a digital trade fair profile that gives students quick online access to your important information.
In the interests of sustainability, we also ask you as a company to bring a small number of your own reusable roll-ups and beach flags to the fair for branding purposes and to keep the number of flyers and give-aways to a minimum. We restrict deliveries and access to the campus to a minimum - also for safety reasons. Those who do not want to do without large exhibition walls and stand structures can book one of the five premium pagodas available per day (entry permit included).
We offer many vegetarian and vegan dishes at regional food trucks. We do not use paper cups and instead ask students to bring their own drinking bottles and fill them up on site at water stations.
In order to avoid waste, we have reduced our printed materials and offer you, for example, a digital trade fair profile that gives students quick online access to your important information.
In the interests of sustainability, we also ask you as a company to bring a small number of your own reusable roll-ups and beach flags to the fair for branding purposes and to keep the number of flyers and give-aways to a minimum. We restrict deliveries and access to the campus to a minimum - also for safety reasons. Those who do not want to do without large exhibition walls and stand structures can book one of the five premium pagodas available per day (entry permit included).
We offer many vegetarian and vegan dishes at regional food trucks. We do not use paper cups and instead ask students to bring their own drinking bottles and fill them up on site at water stations.
Booking
Which booths can I book?
You can choose between a basic stand in a shared tent together with other companies, an individual pagoda and a large premium pagoda with outdoor space on request. You will find more detailed information and prices here in this flyer.
How many places are available at the KIT Career Fair?
There are 88 stands available per day, divided into 56 pagodas, 5 premium pagodas, and 27 basic stands.
How can I book participation in the KIT Career Fair?
The KIT Career Fair can only be booked via the webshop on the Career Service website. To do this, you must register with your company or have access to your existing account.
When can I book my participation in the KIT Career Fair?
The webshop for the KIT Career Fair is usually activated every year in January, the exact date is published here in advance and communicated via our newsletter .
Which general terms apply?
Only the General Terms and Conditions of the KIT Career Service Website apply to the booking of participation in the KIT Career Fair. Unfortunately, we cannot make you an offer for the KIT Career Fair. Please use our preliminary booking confirmation to generate a PO number (if required).
Can we participate on two days?
Unfortunately, it is not possible to participate on both days of the fair. Due to the spatial conditions, the number of available stand spaces is limited. We would like to give as many companies as possible the opportunity to book a stand and thus offer KIT students a wide range of products and services.
Are there joint stand possibilities?
We do not offer collective or joint stands separately. Each stand is linked to the corresponding online trade fair profile of the company making the booking. For technical reasons, only one company name and one logo can be stored in the trade fair profile.
If you would like to appear together with other companies, you can decide for yourself who makes the booking and thus appears in the alphabetical list of exhibitors and on the logo overview. You then have the option of listing your partner or subsidiary companies in free text in the trade fair profile. You can also create and upload a combined logo file or enter the company name so that other exhibitors can be seen from it (e.g. “Company name and partner”).
If you would like to appear together with other companies, you can decide for yourself who makes the booking and thus appears in the alphabetical list of exhibitors and on the logo overview. You then have the option of listing your partner or subsidiary companies in free text in the trade fair profile. You can also create and upload a combined logo file or enter the company name so that other exhibitors can be seen from it (e.g. “Company name and partner”).
Why are there stand quotas according to subject areas?
The KIT Career Fair is the official company contact fair of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and is aimed at students, doctoral candidates and graduates of all disciplines. In order to be able to offer as diverse a selection of companies and industries as possible, the available stand spaces are divided into contingents according to the desired fields of study. Within these contingents, places are allocated according to the time of receipt of bookings.
Between which study degrees can I choose?
The contingents for the subject areas you are looking for are clustered thematically. You can choose between:
- architecture, civil engineering, earth and environmental sciences
- electrical engineering and information technology, mechanical engineering
- economics, humanities and social sciences
- computer science, business informatics
- mathematics, physics
- chemical engineering and process engineering
- chemistry and biosciences
We are looking for junior staff from various specialist areas - which one should I choose when booking?
When booking, select the area in which your company is primarily looking for young talent or is bringing the most vacancies to the fair.
If you are also bringing job offers from other departments or are looking for students from other degree programs, you can indicate this in the online fair profile (“Which students are you looking for at the KIT Career Fair?”) and thus also be filtered and found by students.
We also offer colored stickers for your company stand and for your employees as well as for the students on site - with these you can visually show which disciplines you are looking for.
If you are also bringing job offers from other departments or are looking for students from other degree programs, you can indicate this in the online fair profile (“Which students are you looking for at the KIT Career Fair?”) and thus also be filtered and found by students.
We also offer colored stickers for your company stand and for your employees as well as for the students on site - with these you can visually show which disciplines you are looking for.
What cancelation options do I have?
Your booking is binding and can only be canceled in extraordinary cases (see GTC, section 13.2).
On Campus
Can I park on campus?
No, parking on the KIT campus is not possible. You can park in one of the nearest parking garages (Parkgarage Fasanengarten - walking distance approx. 5 minutes; Parkgarage Schlossplatz - walking distance approx. 15 minutes) or on freely available parking lots along the Adenauerring. However, we particularly recommend that you arrive by public transportation - the KIT campus is easily accessible by streetcar from various directions via the Durlacher Tor stop.
Can I get on campus for unloading?
For security reasons, access to the campus is very limited - we can offer you an entry permit if you have booked one of the five premium pagodas available per day and bring more material and furniture to equip your stand.
If you have booked a simple pagoda or a stand in a communal tent, we are unfortunately unable to issue you with an entry permit. In this case, it is best to only bring design elements for your stand that you can easily carry (beach flag, roll-up, etc.) or take a handcart or handcart with you to transport stand equipment and give-aways from your car to the exhibition grounds.
If you have booked a simple pagoda or a stand in a communal tent, we are unfortunately unable to issue you with an entry permit. In this case, it is best to only bring design elements for your stand that you can easily carry (beach flag, roll-up, etc.) or take a handcart or handcart with you to transport stand equipment and give-aways from your car to the exhibition grounds.
Are there power connections?
Yes, all exhibition stands - whether Premium Pagoda, Pagoda or basic stand in the community tent - will have a power connection so that you can connect laptops or demonstration devices, for example.
Is there vegetarian or vegan food?
Yes, the catering at the KIT Career Fair is completely vegetarian and vegan. We want to set an example: for more sustainability, fewer emissions and a more responsible use of resources. And don't worry, there will still be plenty of variety. Whether savory, sweet, hearty or fresh - there is something for everyone.
What happens if the weather isn't good?
The KIT Career Fair is an open-air event and takes place in the open air whatever the weather. Your trade fair presentation is easily protected by your pagoda or the communal tent, and there are also shaded seating areas with parasols on the grounds as well as a company café in the foyer of the Audimax building - but no continuous roofing.
Whether it's full sun or a surprise spring shower, anything is possible in May and should be planned for when choosing your clothes
Whether it's full sun or a surprise spring shower, anything is possible in May and should be planned for when choosing your clothes
Where can I find important information for the exhibitors?
You will find all important information in your trade fair area (visible after login).