{"id":5621,"date":"2016-03-02T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:14:14","slug":"tarpon-springs-campus-2016-career-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/tarpon-springs-campus-2016-career-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarpon Springs Campus 2016 Career Fair a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/tsc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Petersburg College Tarpon Springs Campus <\/a>hosted their 2016 Career Fair in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/bilirakis.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congressman Gus Bilirakis<\/a>\u00a0last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Feb. 17 fair was well-attended and offered\u00a0job seekers the chance to learn\u00a0more about a wide range of\u00a0 employment opportunities. Fifty employers from the Tampa Bay area were on hand to promote full-time and part-time jobs along with internships.\u00a0 Career openings spanned all academic disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>Employers in attendance included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baycare Medical<\/li>\n<li>Tech Data<\/li>\n<li>Bright House Networks<\/li>\n<li>Chick-Fil-A<\/li>\n<li>Nielsen Media Research<\/li>\n<li>Pinellas County Sherriff&#8217;s Office<\/li>\n<li>BB&amp;T Bank<\/li>\n<li>Pinellas County Utilities and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Panel of Experts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the opportunity to network with local employers, attendees could participate in a Q&amp;A session called the \u201cPanel of Experts.\u201d \u00a0The session consisted of representatives from multiple industries who spoke with job candidates about the types of qualifications they look for in a potential employee. \u00a0Audience members were able to ask questions. Attendees gathered valuable tips\u00a0 and best practices to enhance their job search.<\/p>\n<p>The fair also included workshops on resume writing and interviewing for candidates wanting to learn more about being prepared with the best\u00a0 job search strategies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Still need career help?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tarpon Springs Career Fair may have come and gone, but any student who would like assistance with resume writing, interviewing tips and more, should stop in the Tarpon Campus Career and Transfer Hub located in NU460 or visit any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPC<\/a> campus location.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/careerservices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPC Career Services<\/a> team is ready to assist and better prepare students to be successful in the work world.<\/p>\n<p>For information about upcoming SPC campus<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/events\/default.aspx?id=18227&amp;dt=4%2F7%2F2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> job fairs <\/a>and events, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/careerservices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Career Services<\/a> online. \u00a0Also be sure to get the latest career news by following us on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%23careerspc&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#careerspc<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Petersburg College Tarpon Springs Campus hosted their 2016 Career Fair in collaboration with Congressman Gus Bilirakis\u00a0last month. The Feb. 17 fair was well-attended and offered\u00a0job seekers the chance to learn\u00a0more about a wide range of\u00a0 employment opportunities. Fifty employers from the Tampa Bay area were on hand to promote full-time and part-time jobs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/tarpon-springs-campus-2016-career-fair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tarpon Springs Campus 2016 Career Fair a success<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":5622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4,10],"class_list":["post-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-news","tag-career-services","tag-internships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10707,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions\/10707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}