Industry Comes to pg电子官网状态 helps employers recruit employees

Hanceville, AL — Students from pg电子官网状态 社区 College and representatives from several businesses and industries got the opportunity to network with each other in the hopes of finding future employment or employees.

Each month, the college’s Center for 职业与劳动力 Development (CCWD) holds Industry Comes to pg电子官网状态, where area businesses and industries can meet with students from certain programs that may best fit with the jobs they are seeking to 填满.

“This is an opportunity for us to bring companies on to campus to interact with our students more regularly, not just once a year for a career fair,” 说 Bethany Campbell 的CCWD. “It’s more condensed, so we have five or six companies each month and they are here to speak to targeted groups of students for jobs that they want to hire for 现在, as well as internship opportunities.”

Lt. 詹姆斯 Perry of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) was on hand to recruit candidates to serve as deputies with the JCSO.

“There’s a great need for deputy sheriffs as well as law enforcement officers,” Perry 说. “We are looking for youth because we believe youth is the future of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and law enforcement, period. We come to colleges and high schools because we believe that those candidates are the future. 我们需要年轻人 who are willing to work and don’t mind getting out there and fighting crime.”

Letrenda Hardy of the Personnel Board of Jefferson County 说 law enforcement jobs have the most openings 现在 with the county, but there are about 80 job openings now in all types of careers. Some of the job openings now include nurse practitioner, dentist, city and county engineers, heavy equipment operators and more.

“There’s a whole range of jobs,” Hardy 说, adding events like Industry Comes to pg电子官网状态 help them get the word out about applying for jobs. “So that when students are looking for jobs, they remember us and they remember our website, jobsquest.com. 工作quest gives you contact with all of our 22 agencies where you can make applications.”

“I’m looking for people that really want to invest in themselves and find out what their opportunity is, what their capabilities are,” Mike Borden a 1995 graduate of WSCC’s HVAC program and owner of Borden Services of West Point, a residential and 商用空调. “Our workforce is dwindling down and our skillset is disappearing, so we want to revitalize that and give that a bit of a push.”

Lora Kent Gilliland of LP Building Solutions is a frequent vendor at pg电子官网状态 职业活动.

“This helps get the word out about what we do,” she 说 of the local company that manufactures oriented strand board, or OSB. The company is part of the college’s FAME program, and has one current, and two former FAME students working at the company 现在.

For more information about pg电子官网状态’s Center for 职业与劳动力 Development’s Industry Comes to pg电子官网状态 or internship and apprenticeship opportunities for students, contact Jamie Blackmon at 256.352.8461 or 杰米.blackmon@ziyanliervip.com 或访问 zyv3.ziyanliervip.com/careerdevelopment.

Priority registration for summer and fall semesters will begin April 3, with registration for all students on April 6. Summer 2023 classes begin May 24. Fall 2023 classes begin 8月. 18. For more information, visit zyv3.ziyanliervip.com，拨打256.352.8000 or come by Lion Central in the lobby of the 詹姆斯 C. 贝利中心 Monday-Wednesday 7:30 a.m. 到下午6点.m.，星期四7:30 a.m. 到下午4:30.m.，或星期五7:30 a.m. 到2点.m.

A representative from Advantage Dental speaks to students from pg电子官网状态 社区 College’s Dental programs during Tuesday’s Industry Comes to pg电子官网状态 event.