SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Hundreds of students filled the Jefferson College Moffat Student Center in Scranton on Wednesday for the school\u2019s bi-annual job fair where employers could directly connect with students for potential jobs and internships.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing the school of technology, our job is to worry about jobs, right? We think about jobs at the beginning, we don\u2019t wait till the end,” explained associate director of Career Services Dana Healey. “And we have, you know pretty intense programs. Two years. And we want the students, whether they\u2019re freshmen, sophomores, or seniors, we really want them thinking about the end. Thinking about what they want to do for the rest of their life.\u201d<\/p>\n
89 businesses set up booths and meet directly with students from all over the college\u2019s 18 associate degrees and 5 academic certificate programs from HVAC, to mechanical engineering, to health services, and more.<\/p>\n
Jacob Nielson is a senior studying architectural drafting and design technologies who already has a job lined up due to a previous job fair. He and his friends still took the time to roam and talk to some tables, and he encouraged others to do the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt worked out in our favor, and it worked out for a lot of people,” said Nielson. “Like I have a bunch of friends that went here and they would come to the career fair. Talk to one company, all you have to do is talk to at least one company and you\u2019re almost guaranteed to get a job because the things that we learn here is actual in-field things. It\u2019s not just like theory; it\u2019s actual applicable things.\u201d<\/p>\n
The job fair is only open to Johnson College students and alumni, so they don\u2019t have to worry about outside competition. <\/p>\n
For the career services department, which spends hours organizing resumes, consulting students on interviews, and setting up the fair, they\u2019re filling an important role.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re filling the jobs in the community,” continued Healey. “We all live here, right? So, we all want these jobs to be filled, and the people that are coming to recruit feel the same way. So, it\u2019s exciting for me because I feel like the programs are, we are successful and this proves that it\u2019s working.\u201d<\/p>\n
The next career fair will be in the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Hundreds of students filled the Jefferson College Moffat Student Center in Scranton on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-142185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}