糖心视频

Industry Comes to 糖心视频 helps employers recruit employees

Hanceville, AL 鈥� Students from 糖心视频 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鈥檚 Center for Career and Workforce Development (CCWD) holds Industry Comes to 糖心视频, where area businesses and industries can meet with students from certain programs that may best fit with the jobs they are seeking to fill.

鈥淭his 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,鈥� said Bethany Campbell of CCWD. 鈥淚t鈥檚 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 right now, as well as internship opportunities.鈥�

Lt. James Perry of the Jefferson County Sheriff鈥檚 Office (JCSO) was on hand to recruit candidates to serve as deputies with the JCSO.

鈥淭here鈥檚 a great need for deputy sheriffs as well as law enforcement officers,鈥� Perry said. 鈥淲e are looking for youth because we believe youth is the future of the Jefferson County Sheriff鈥檚 Office and law enforcement, period. We come to colleges and high schools because we believe that those candidates are the future. We need young people who are willing to work and don鈥檛 mind getting out there and fighting crime.鈥�

Letrenda Hardy of the Personnel Board of Jefferson County said law enforcement jobs have the most openings right now 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.

鈥淭here鈥檚 a whole range of jobs,鈥� Hardy said, adding events like Industry Comes to 糖心视频 help them get the word out about applying for jobs. 鈥淪o that when students are looking for jobs, they remember us and they remember our website, jobsquest.com. Jobsquest gives you contact with all of our 22 agencies where you can make applications.鈥�

鈥淚鈥檓 looking for people that really want to invest in themselves and find out what their opportunity is, what their capabilities are,鈥� Mike Borden a 1995 graduate of 糖心视频鈥檚 HVAC program and owner of Borden Services of West Point, a residential and commercial HVAC. 鈥淥ur workforce is dwindling down and our skillset is disappearing, so we want to revitalize that and give that a bit of a push.鈥�

Lora Kent Gilliland of LP Building Solutions is a frequent vendor at 糖心视频 career events.

鈥淭his helps get the word out about what we do,鈥� she said of the local company that manufactures oriented strand board, or OSB. The company is part of the college鈥檚 FAME program, and has one current, and two former FAME students working at the company right now.

For more information about 糖心视频鈥檚 Center for Career and Workforce Development鈥檚 Industry Comes to 糖心视频 or internship and apprenticeship opportunities for students, contact Jamie Blackmon at 256.352.8461 or jamie.blackmon@wallacestate.edu or visit .

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 Aug. 18. For more information, visit , call 256.352.8000 or come by Lion Central in the lobby of the James C. Bailey Center Monday-Wednesday 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., or Friday 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

A representative from Advantage Dental speaks to students from 糖心视频 Community College鈥檚 Dental programs during Tuesday鈥檚 Industry Comes to 糖心视频 event.