Annual career fair offers info, help with interviews
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PABLO — About 600 job seekers and students looking for information about various careers attended the Feb. 22 Salish Kootenai College Career/Job Fair. The doors were open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Joe McDonald Health and Wellness Center, and participants could have cookies and coffee before descending to the gym floor and talking to representatives from such diverse groups as the Air Force National Guard to the Salish Kootenai College art department to St. Luke’s Community Healthcare to the National Security Agency. In all, 91 organizations had table,s according to Chris Strom, project director for the Indigenous Math and Science Institute, just a few more than last year.
Workshops on recruiting for college, tips and techniques for interviewing and internships were running at the Johnny Arlee/Vic Charlo Theatre to assist students and job hunters.
Herb Webb and Craig Engelhard, who visited with students about careers at the Natural Resources and Conservation Service, said about 10 percent of the people who came to the NRCS booth were nontraditional students, but mostly they had seen people in their 30s and students in their teens or 20s.
Bunnie Redwoman, Lame Deer, wants to study nursing and found the SKC nursing department very helpful. Redwoman’s mother also found some job opportunities.
However, there were not many education jobs at the fair for Tashina McKeever. McKeever will graduate from SKC with an elementary education degree.
To qualify for a free lunch, attendees needed to have personnel from three tables or one workshop sign their lunch ticket. About 400 people stayed for lunch, Strom said.
Comments from presenters were all positive, Strom said. She also would like to see more high school students attending the career/job fair.
Strom and Terri Cordier coordinated the career/job fair, hosted by SKC Career Services, Student Support Services, Indigenous Math and Science Institute and Polson Job Service.
