Commissioner Murman quoted in this Tampa Tribune article on her County Job Fair:
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Job seekers pack County Job Fair on HCC campus
From staff reports
Published: October 16, 2015 | Updated: October 16, 2015 at 07:31 PM
About 800 people packed into Hillsborough Community College’s Student Services Building Friday seeking jobs during the County Job Fair held on HCC’s Dale Mabry campus.
The job fair was hosted by Hillsborough County Commissioner Sandy Murman, in association with CareerSource Tampa Bay and HCC. About 55 employers participated in the free event, including Busch Gardens, Bright House Networks and Amazon.
After the job fair, a virtual job fair was held to allow job seekers to apply for employment online at a special web page. That online job fair will continue through the weekend, said Murman, who spearheaded the event and attended.
“It’s giving people across the county a chance to have access to employers hiring in a different part of the county. We’re trying to offer the employers more possibilities, and the job seekers more options,” Murman said of the virtual job fair . For those who don’t have computer access at home, they can access the job fair from computers at any public library, she said.
“Some people might not be able to get to the job fair location, so we’re hoping this will be another way to join employers with potential employees.”
Murman said that by posting the jobs available in advance, the response was overwhelming. “We had major companies like Mosaic, Progressive Insurance, West Florida Health. We had a lot of the major employers in our community,” Murman said. “The results we got back and the response was overwhelmingly positive and people felt like it was really about the quality of employers we got there.
“It was very successful and we’re very happy we’re getting people back to work,” Murman said.
