ADRIAN — The second annual Profession Connections countywide job honest greater than doubled the participation numbers of final 12 months’s occasion, profession honest organizers mentioned.
The job honest allowed greater than 40 employers to fulfill with greater than 275 native adults, faculty college students and highschool juniors and seniors March 22 on the Siena Heights College fieldhouse in Adrian.
Profession Connections was developed in 2022 to attach highschool seniors who weren’t planning to observe a standard profession path to completely different employment choices obtainable within the area. It additionally offers alternatives to hitch the workforce after highschool, enroll in apprenticeships and search tuition reimbursement. The job honest is being held by the Align Middle for Workforce Improvement, which is a part of Lenawee Now, the financial improvement company for Lenawee County.
Sponsors of this 12 months’s job honest included Midwest Vitality and Communications, Michigan Works Southeast, Siena Heights, the Lenawee Intermediate College District, Anderson Improvement Co., Clift Buick GMC, Evonik-Silbond, Walmart and MC Bartending.
“It takes an incredible quantity of labor to place an occasion like this collectively, so to see college students, profession seekers and employers prove within the numbers they did was tremendous energizing,” Ashley Vandenbusche, supervisor of the Michigan Works Southeast service middle in Adrian , mentioned in a information launch.
Ben Negron, retailer supervisor of the Adrian Meijer, mentioned he met a number of “excessive worth” candidates and presumably some new staff.
“I used to be additionally very impressed with the organizational effort by the Align group to create a welcoming house for all,” he mentioned within the launch. “The one factor that stood out concerning the Align group was that they have been always seen and helped the varied distributors all through the occasion.”
Garry Clift, proprietor of Clift Buick GMC, was in a position to share each his for-profit and non-profit passions by speaking to job seekers about employment with the dealership and volunteer alternatives with the animal rescue he helps, Ahimsa Protected Haven in Onsted. Clift referred to as the occasion “excellent” and mentioned it was a “nice funding in the neighborhood.”
Sheila Blair, supervisor of the Align Middle for Workforce Improvement, mentioned excessive schoolers had the chance to not solely go to with employers for possibly the primary time of their lives, however they have been additionally in a position to tour the Siena Heights College campus and attend mini seminars onsite .
Highschool academics and counselors who attended the occasion with their college students have been impressed with the choices for top schoolers, the discharge mentioned.
“We had seminars for them (college students) to find out about what apprenticeships, scholarships and different helps have been obtainable for his or her pursuits and in addition which employers supply tuition reimbursement,” Blair mentioned within the launch. “We even talked to them concerning the significance of cleansing up their social media posts since employers are actually taking a look at social media earlier than hiring candidates.”
Adrian Excessive College math/enterprise trainer Thomas Allor Jr. mentioned his college students who attended the profession honest gained a lot from the expertise.
“Lots of the children actually felt that the distributors defined the roles nicely,” he mentioned. “Aligning offered them with the chance to fulfill and greet, now it’s (the scholar’s) flip to truly observe by way of and apply for the job.”
Blair mentioned the Align Middle goes to make Profession Connections an annual occasion, greater than doubtless being held in March every year. The 2022 profession honest was hosted at Adrian Faculty in late March. The timeframe, she defined within the launch, offers highschool seniors with the possibility to have a job plan following commencement. Nonetheless, what is obtainable and supplied on the communitywide job honest is for extra than simply highschool college students. Additionally it is a optimistic impression for the complete group, he mentioned.
“All of us need to reside in a group which fosters and sustains a robust, various financial system,” Vandenbusche mentioned. “Offering profession seekers and employers with boards like Profession Connections to have interaction with each other is a necessary a part of guaranteeing Lenawee County continues to be a spot the place people and companies alike can reside, work and prosper.”
Patrick Farver, government director for Lenawee Now and the Align Middle for Workforce Improvement, mentioned “nice collaboration” introduced final week’s occasion collectively.
“All of the sponsors helped assist and promote this occasion to different companies, college students and folks in search of a job,” Farver mentioned within the launch. “Coming collectively to assist our companies and job seekers is what makes this a particular occasion.”
Lenawee, Jackson County highschool college students compete in entrepreneurship problem
On March 18, the ultimate a part of the CEO Problem: Lauch befell on the Jackson Space Profession Middle with 13 groups from Lenawee and Jackson County excessive colleges giving a enterprise pitch in entrance of a panel of judges.
After the preliminary elimination rounds, the ultimate three groups went in opposition to one another to compete for the grand prize of $1,000. Tthe profitable groups have been from Jackson Excessive College, first place; Lumen Christi Excessive College, second place; and Northwest Excessive College, third place. The occasion was sponsored by Lenawee Now and administered by Junior Achievement.
Launch is the ultimate stage of the CEO Problem, a three-part collection designed to create enthusiasm amongst excessive schoolers round entrepreneurship and educate them the mandatory abilities for the endeavor. Beginning in January, Lenawee County colleges took half within the first section, Spark. At this occasion, college students heard from a panel of native entrepreneurs and took part in a structured exercise the place they created a enterprise idea to pitch in a 2-minute infomercial.
Following that have, college students returned to their colleges and assembled groups for Ignite, the second a part of the CEO Problem. Over the course of six weeks, college students developed a services or products and a technique for turning it right into a viable enterprise. Members discovered from each academics and independently from interactive modules provided by Junior Achievement.
Members within the Launch problem have been additionally in a position to win awards for probably the most progressive concept or finest presentation, the discharge mentioned.
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