More than 500 people seeking employment attended
Commissioner Sandy Murman’s County Job Fair at the Hillsborough Community
College’s Student Services Building last Friday 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. Nearly 60 employers
and vendors participated in the free event, including Nielsen, Busch Gardens,
Walgreens, Hillsborough County Schools, US Foods, Moffitt Cancer Center and
USAA. Nearly all of the employers surveyed by CareerSource rated the event as
excellent.
After the job fair, a virtual job fair was held to allow job
seekers to apply for employment online at a special web page through
CareerSource. That online job fair, which was in partnership with the
Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative, was from 1-5 p.m., said Murman,
who spearheaded both events.
“It gave 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 didn’t have
computer access at home, they could 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 this was another way to join employers with potential
employees.”
Murman said that by posting the jobs available in advance,
and promoting the event well in advance, the response was overwhelming. “We had
major companies like USAA, Nielsen, and US Foods. 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.
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