{"id":549,"date":"2016-06-24T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=549"},"modified":"2016-07-01T14:48:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:48:15","slug":"hutto-official-starts-work-as-tstc-recruiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Hutto Official Starts Work as TSTC Recruiter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(HUTTO) – Michael Smith now has more reasons to root for Hutto’s progress.<\/div>\n
Smith, 30, the Hutto City Council’s mayor pro-tem, began June 1 as a student recruitment specialist at Texas State Technical College in Williamson County.<\/div>\n
He was previously a political consultant working with area and state candidates.<\/div>\n
“It’s a lot of the same skills set in working with people,” Smith said. “From the business side, recruitment is recruitment.”<\/div>\n
Smith will focus this summer on non-traditional students, such as military veterans or those who want a career change, and will pick up some of the more than 100 high schools within a 50-mile radius of TSTC in late summer.<\/div>\n
“There are so many high schools that haven’t been touched yet,” said Caleb Steed, TSTC in Williamson County’s interim director of student recruitment.<\/div>\n
Smith, along with other student recruiters at TSTC, will work closely with Industry Relations and Talent Management when companies seek employees with specific skill sets.<\/div>\n
“We are very glad he is part of the team,” Steed said. “We are looking forward to things he can bring to the table for TSTC as a whole.”<\/div>\n
Smith was born in Frankfurt, Germany, where his family was stationed in the military. His family eventually moved to Killeen and he graduated from Shoemaker High School in 2004.<\/div>\n
He graduated in 2008 from Texas A&M University in College Station with a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Leadership and Development.<\/div>\n
Smith has served on the Hutto City Council since 2009.<\/div>\n
“I see that TSTC in Williamson County is a big part of a relationship with the city, which is a big part of what we do,” he said. “You can always get things done by working together. We have TSTC here which provides a flexible model to teach job training for the city and region’s economic development.”<\/div>\n
TSTC in Williamson County is at the East Williamson County Higher Education Center on Innovation Boulevard in Hutto.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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