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(WACO) – More than 90 employers visited Texas State Technical College Thursday for its annual Industry Career Day event, with nearly 650 job-seeking students in attendance.<\/p>\n
Kacey Darnell, executive director of Talent Management and Career Services at TSTC, said the event gives students a chance to get to know employers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndustry Career Day gives employers a chance to show off their company,and it gives the students a chance to get a really great job,\u201d Darnell said. \u201cA lot of times students don\u2019t know what kind of jobs companies offer. Last spring we had an Avionics student who came to Industry Career Day and ended up working for a company called True North Marine repairing the sonar equipment on the marine boats. It\u2019s something that aligns but is totally different than what he was expecting, and he\u2019s done really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
One company in attendance, the cosmetics company Mary Kay, has participated in TSTC\u2019s Industry Career Day for five years. The company, which manufactures its own products, hires graduates to work on their production equipment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe currently offer an internship to hire, which is basically a 90-day probation period where they\u2019re truly doing packaging mechanic work,\u201d said Mary Kay associate HR business partner Nelissa Croach. \u201cThey do preventative maintenance and run their own lines, making sure the speed of the line is accurate. Some of the machines go 30 products a minute, where others are 137 products a minute. They have to make sure they\u2019re able to program the machines to do those things. Also if there\u2019s a jam, they have to figure it out and get it going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Croach said TSTC\u2019s training aligns well with the knowledge of their longtime employees.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of the people we have there have been there for 20 plus years and haven\u2019t been recently trained on the new technology,\u201d she said. \u201cSo we have these guys coming in along with our long-term employees, and together it works out really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joe Razza, regional recruiter at Crown Lift Trucks, said the company often visits TSTC\u2019s campuses to recruit those with electronics and mechanical backgrounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe take those skills, hone them and put them through training to apply that to our technology,\u201d Razza said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had great success, and the caliber of students is great as well. The students, as far as professionalism goes, the questions they ask, how they present themselves and their knowledge base is off the charts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Darnell said she often sees TSTC alumni coming back to recruit.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lot of alumni representing their companies here,\u201d she said. \u201cThey know the training they got from TSTC, and they know they can find skilled workers here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sean Shannon, an Industrial Maintenance student who graduates in December, said this is his third Industry Career Day with TSTC.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ran out of resumes,\u201d he said. \u201cI had an on-the-spot interview, so it\u2019s looking good. This is the biggest one I\u2019ve been to. I think they\u2019re going to run out of room here soon!\u201d<\/p>\n
Part of TSTC\u2019s mission is to meet the workforce needs of Texas, and the college places a high importance on placing students and graduates in jobs. For more information on Texas State Technical College and the college\u2019s placement efforts, visit tstc.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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