Thursday, September 14, 2023
Photos by Cindy Davis Meixel, writer/photo editor; and Tom Wilson, writer/editor-Penn College News
Students are finishing the fifth week of classes already, and Career Services has marked each of those weeks on a calendar overflowing with networking opportunities for students and alumni. Activities from Sept. 10-14 included a daylong Human Services & Restorative Justice Expo on Tuesday and several more Recruitment Days, including an architecture-related one on Thursday.
Fast approaching is the Fall Career Fair, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 2-3 in Bardo Gymnasium and the Field House. A searchable directory of participating employers is available through Career Services.
Bailey J. West (standing at left), a human services & restorative justice freshman from Perryville, Mo., speaks with representatives at the Families United Network Inc. table, including human services alumna Latricia M. Scutching (seated at right), residential therapist.
Sierra Fay (standing at right), a senior in human services & restorative justice, considers employment options available through the state Department of Corrections.
Shiny, happy “stress balls” adorn the table of Diversified Treatment Alternative Centers.
Tables line the hallway outside of the human services & restorative justice classroom and lab in the Hager Lifelong Education Center ...
... and also occupy an adjoining hallway of the Carl Building Technologies Center, where Raul A. Carbajal, a human services & restorative justice sophomore and Army veteran, explores career paths (along with his trusty service dog, Remus).
Ready to recruit! Human services alumni and GEO Reentry Services staff Elena L. Girio (left), case manager, and Nick W. Henning, reentry coordinator, are poised to advise job seekers.
Reuben J. Sanchez, a residential construction technology and management student from Lancaster, talks one-on-two with Brix Design Group representatives: Katrina M. Endresen, project architect, and Jacob M. Pusateri, architectural designer. Pusateri, a May graduate in building science & sustainable design: architectural technology concentration, was one of about a dozen alumni at Thursday's Recruitment Day.
Another May 2023 graduate returned to campus on behalf of her employer is Amanda F. (Ritter) Zimmerman, head architectural technician and project manager at JENA Engineering in Allentown. Zimmerman, who earned a bachelor's in building science & sustainable design: architectural technology concentration, discusses employment options with Evynn A. Johnston, of Sayre, enrolled in architecture & sustainable design.
Among the day's busy tents was that of Larson Design Group, a Corporate Tomorrow Maker that consistently hires Penn College alumni – including two of the three employees that staffed the company's booth! From left are Austin J. Kohl and Trent E. Donley, 2022 graduates in building science & sustainable design: architectural technology concentration; and Hunter O'Connor, a Lycoming College business graduate.
Alumnus William E. Hye, ('16, construction management), a project manager with the Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., draws a crowd of potential interns.
Beautiful weather made being outdoors a joy, whether walking or biking across campus. This pair of two-wheeled job-seekers stopped in their travels to chat with Jim Reinhart, from Bethlehem-based D'Huy Engineering Inc.
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