Washington County Career Center's Job Fair Was A Success

MARIETTA, OH — The Washington County Career Center is celebrating yet another successful job fair. On Friday, April 16, students and companies from all over the region congregated at the career center for a job fair. The event gave local companies the chance to show prospective students what kind of careers they can work towards if they enroll at The Career Center.

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Lori Smith is in charge of marketing and recruiting for The Career Center. She explained that this wasn't exactly your run-of-the-mill job fair. "This is more about informing young people about careers available right here in the Mid-Ohio Valley." Employers were there to educate the youth about what kind of skills, qualifications, and training they're looking for.

Around 200 high school students attended today's fair. Students from Waterford High School, Belpre High School, Meadowbrook High School, Mid-Ohio Valley Technical Institute, and Shenandoah High School all made the trip. They were greeted and able to interact with representatives from local employers. This included Luminant, BB2C, AOMC / Micro Machine Works, Chemours, Somerville Fabrication, Momentive, BiCon, Morrison, KML Brotherhood of Carpenters, Orion, KRATON, AOMC / Solvay, International Converter, Simonton Windows, Simex Vinyl Extrusions, Hi-Vac, and JFS.

Smith said the event was a great success. "Our staff was very impressed. The students were very mature and had great questions." She was very pleased with the fact that they enrolled a number of students at the event.

Smith is passionate about educating kids about alternate ways to get into the job market. "Most of them have heard 'college, college, college,' that they need to go to college. What we're here to say is jus,t know there are other pathways." Her message to today's youth is clear, there are roads to success that don't involve spending years and tens of thousands of dollars to get a degree.

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