SE Campus held a career fair Sept. 17 where universities and organizations met with students to discuss options for life after TCC.
The Heart and Hospitality Career Fair was organized by Administrative Assistant Ethan Hatley, who said it was intended to be different from past career fairs.
“My goal overall was to connect students with employers, specifically in health care, hospitality, but also culinary, any sort of adjacent fields to those specifically,” Hatley said.
This fair offered students with specific wants and needs a look into their potential career path.
“Mainly with networking, that’s the key goal is to bring people in so that students can meet with people in those fields,” Hatley said.
The various booths offered to students ranged from the military to food services. Each booth in attendance had a specific purpose.
Representatives from Falk, a health care organization, set up a booth at this fair to show students different opportunities, like EMS.
“It’s giving the opportunity for us to get to know people that could be joining our Falk family,” paramedic Crystal Wise said. “And then giving them an opportunity. It’s kind of hard in EMS to get out and find a job and know where to go.”
With the college providing an EMT program, the Falk team participated in the fair to help students interested in that pathway.
“TCC runs one of the biggest EMT and paramedic classes or programs in DFW,” Managing Director David Phillips said. “A lot of these folks are doing prereqs for health care in general and don’t have a ton of clarity on exactly what that means.”
The U.S. Air Force participated in the career fair with a booth that provided different options to students seeking military information.
“We do get a lot of no’s as recruiters but I just hope that I can reach just one or two individuals to really change their lives, kind of like how the Air Force has changed my life for the better,” said technical Sgt. Christina Sheaks, an active-duty recruiter. “My goal for being here and at any job fair really is to kind of educate people on what the Air Force has to offer and what the Space Force has to offer.”
A women’s led health clinic based out of Dallas called Abide Women’s Health Services joined the career fair to share their purpose with students.
The clinic offers internships and volunteer opportunities for students to expand their healthcare knowledge in a more specific area.
“The goal today was basically to share the opportunities that we have at Abide with interning,” Director of Administration Melissa Resendiz said. “They are unpaid internships, but basically it’s an opportunity for students to be able to learn about different services.”
SE students were able to access career and further education information in a non-formal way that provided them with different options for after they graduate from TCC.
