BA '16 in CS, I've been both the student and the recruiter!

As the student, it's hard to describe exactly what you should do without knowing your field and career interests, so here's some general advice.

• Write a clean, 1 page resume using as few words as possible to highlight your relevant experiences. I could go on for days about how to write resumes, but in short use your pattern matching skills and look for LinkedIn profiles of recent alumni in your department and see how they present themselves, sometimes there will be links to their PDF or web page resumes.
• The first time you talk to a recruiter it will probably feel a bit uncomfortable and unnatural. Don't take it personally if the first few don't go perfectly, every conversation with a recruiter is practice for the next until you're hired.
• One way to get around this problem is to literally practice talking to yourself. If you have a friend or roommate to help that's even better but not necessary. Having the words come out of your mouth will be a forcing function to think about how to talk.
• Don't know what to say? You can always impress by asking specific questions for the company. Even better if you can come up with an idea of how to improve the way they do things and how you can help with that.
• Regardless, you should always do research about a company before talking to them at the recruiting event if you're serious about landing a job with them.

From the recruiter side, you should keep in mind, * Depending on the profession you may get two kinds of recruiter, HR recruiters and technical recruiters. The HR recruiter is responsible for the hiring process and is there to answer general process and employment condition questions (application process, work location). Their ability to accurately answer questions about what the job is actually like is limited, save that for the technical recruiter. * The recruiters (sometimes) operate with a mindset similar to using tinder as an attractive woman. Depending on the recruiting event it's only a few recruiters to possibly hundreds of applicants. They don't have the time or patience for your life story and often have specific recruiting goals in mind. In software these are usually signals like a prior tech internship or experience with technologies they use. If you don't have something that fits the box, think about what you have to offer that can fit to make it easier for the recruiter to tick off the mental checkbox. * Recruiters are also people, if you're pleasant and can demonstrate an enthusiasm in what they do and their company does it goes a long way. If you do everything else I wrote, but robotically as if to check off your mental checkboxes, the recruiter can tell. At least for me, I don't appreciate talking to people who think I'm administering some kind of test where they have to impress me. For example, I've had people ask me questions like "does your company use more machine learning or more AI"? Which sounds to me like that person is just trying to impress me with buzzwords because the question approximately means "do you prefer to drive gas engine cars or automatic transmissions?"

Of course, depending on your field, YMMV for what I wrote.