{"id":27883,"date":"2025-10-30T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27883\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:11:18","slug":"workforce-solutions-holds-job-expo-for-high-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27883\/","title":{"rendered":"Workforce Solutions holds job expo for high school students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/workforcesouthplains.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/workforcesouthplains.org\/\">Workforce Solutions South Plains<\/a> held its 25th annual job expo on Wednesday, hoping to help students discover potential career paths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event was aimed at juniors and seniors in high school. Various fields were represented, from electrical work to plumbing, allowing students the opportunity to gather a wide range of experiences and get insight from professionals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ben Alexander, the CEO of Workforce Solutions South Plains, spoke about why it\u2019s important for high schoolers to seek out their next step.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAs students are getting ready to make those critical decisions, in the fall, prior to the spring semester of graduation, they get this opportunity to really look and see, \u2018Which direction should I go?\u2019\u201d Alexander said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Workforce Solutions South Plains helps 15 counties in the area, serving thousands of job seekers daily. Even though the expos are held in Lubbock, Alexander said he wants folks in rural communities to know that these types of events are just as much for them as for students here in the Hub City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you\u2019re looking for a job, or job training, you can find them on the web at <a href=\"https:\/\/workforcesouthplains.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/workforcesouthplains.org\/\">Workforce Solutions South Plains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) &#8211; Workforce Solutions South Plains held its 25th annual job expo on Wednesday, hoping to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-27883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}