Last month’s Starke County Job Fair was a success. That’s according to Ron Gifford with the Starke County Economic Development Foundation. “We had about 20 companies there,” he told the Hamlet Town Council last week. “They weren’t all industrial companies. Some were personnel agencies on behalf of companies, and some were commercial facilities. We had one of the auto parts stores there, for example and a trucking company offering CDL A Truck Driver Positions. Some of the nursing homes were there. So lots of people were looking. We had about 60 people, total, that went through there. We saw one of the companies hire two people on the spot.”
Gifford explained that the job fair was held at the request of some of the county’s employers, who wanted a chance to meet with graduating high school seniors. It was held at Knox High School on April 26. “Every single month, we have more people in the labor force looking for jobs, and I think the job fair showed that we have lots of companies out looking for people to work,” Gifford said. “It’s just a significant problem trying to find people.”
In addition to students from around Starke County, the general public also had the chance to attend last month’s job fair.
