{"id":463976,"date":"2026-10-12T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463976\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:14:08","slug":"noon-notebook-workforce-solutions-to-host-south-plains-career-youth-expo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463976\/","title":{"rendered":"Noon Notebook: Workforce Solutions to host South Plains Career Youth Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Workforce Solutions will host its annual South Plains Career Youth Expo on Tuesday, Oct. 13, from 8 a.m. to noon at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. The event will give high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to connect with industry professionals, explore career paths, and learn more about opportunities available after graduation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Career Youth Expo will be a come-and-go event where students can speak directly with employers and representatives from a variety of industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cEvents like the Career Youth Expo give students an opportunity to learn about careers and industries they may not have encountered before,\u201d said Dr. Ben Alexander, CEO of Workforce Solutions South Plains. \u201cWe want students to have the chance to ask questions, make connections, and discover opportunities they can begin working toward now and in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u2022 Student registration: <a href=\"https:\/\/sql-web-srv.spworkforce.org\/Forms\/EXPO-Student-Reg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/sql-web-srv.spworkforce.org\/Forms\/EXPO-Student-Reg\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/sql-web-srv.spworkforce.org\/Forms\/EXPO-Student-Reg<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u2022 For more information: https:\/\/workforcesouthplains.org\/contact-us\/About<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Workforce Solutions South Plains Workforce Solutions South Plains serves employers and job seekers across the 15-county South Plains region. Through its local workforce centers, the organization provides career, business and childcare services and programs designed to support individuals, employers and families. Its work is guided by the values of individual opportunity, service, responsibility, effectiveness and respect for the dignity of every individual.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Workforce Solutions will host its annual South Plains Career Youth Expo on Tuesday, Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[65802,447,64,319,251,168,170,169,1438,158106],"class_list":["post-463976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-career-fair","tag-community","tag-events","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-noon-notebook","tag-workforce-solutions-of-the-south-plains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463976","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=463976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}