Recent Job Fair Hailed as a Success

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa

Last Friday’s job fair on the Currahee Campus of North Georgia Technical College is being hailed as a success.

The fair drew hundreds of job seekers who came hoping to land that next position with one of 60 potential employers.

Each year, the Georgia Department Of Labor’s Toccoa Career Center puts on the event.  Toccoa Career Center Manager Greg Pitts says  Friday’s job  fair was a great day for everyone involved.

“We started out with more than 200 high school seniors from Banks and Stephens counties coming through the career expo,” said Pitts.  “We had a great turnout from employers, (with) in excess of 55 employers and resource agencies on hand.  We have had somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 to 300 job seekers come through.  We are pleased.  We really are.”

The event Friday also included workshops to help people with certain aspects of the job search process.

Pitt said it’s that kind of local support from employers and employment resource groups that help make the annual job fair a success.

“We have a lot of people that put in a lot of hard work on this,” said Pitts.  “Anytime you can come to an event and you know people are going to get a job or they are going to go to work because of it, you leave there with a good feeling.”
“We have a lot of people that put in a lot of hard work on this,” said Pitts.  “Anytime you can come to an event and you know people are going to get a job or they are going to go to work because of it, you leave there with a good feeling.” – See more at: http://wnegradio.com/friday-job-fair-goes-welll-in-stephens-co/#sthash.TshL6dR1.dpuf

Friday’s job fair was preceded a week earlier with a daylong seminar of work shops at Lavonia First Baptist Church designed to help job candidates put their best foot forward when searching for work.