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Photo Story: Students experience opportunities with employers at Career Fair

Abigail Gibb | Contributor

WCC hosts a career fair every semester, where local businesses can interact with students who are looking for future employment and students gain more experience on how networking works. This year’s career fair was hosted on Feb. 12 in the Morris Lawrence building. Even with the cold weather, many still came to the fair to learn how they could succeed.

Preet Patel (left), an electrical and computer engineering major, discusses job opportunities with Andrew Gary, senior controls engineer at Automated Control Systems, and Matt Hackerd, the company’s vice president. Automated Control Systems builds the training kits that automotive employees use to train on factory control panels.

Glen Shaffer (left), a community member and computer science student through the University of Maryland’s global campus listens as Duncan Aviation’s senior talent acquisition specialist, Dave Sturdy, shares job openings.

Lauren McBain, Illuminate ABA Therapy’s Michigan operations manager, speaks about opportunities one would have with the company. Illuminate’s Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy program is accompanied by speech, language and physical therapy as well to help each child individually.

Jenayah Burton (left), a GED student, listens as Sue A. McCarty, director of human resources at Ypsilanti Community Schools, talks to Mozhdeh Kazemzadeh, a community member specializing in accounting about employment possibilities.

Rachel Lorenc, an educator at Leslie Science and Nature Center and Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, holds a cockroach from the tank on the table.

Lynette Richard, industry engagement coordinator, and Stephanie Sikorski, Elitek Vehicle Services and LKQ Company Talent Acquisition Manager, bump elbows instead of a handshake.

Officer Logan Lambertson, from the Pittsfield Charter Township Department of Public Safety, adjusts his hat while talking with Officer Jake Mlynarek (not featured).

Brett Hutcheon, community member, walks by the Huron River Watershed Council table to see what they are offering, passing by Melina Pakey-rodriguez, monitoring and outreach coordinator for the Huron River Watershed Council. The Huron River Watershed Council came to the WCC career fair looking for students interested in the Volunteer Aquatic Field Internship.

Kyande Sanders, with the YMCA, listening as Lynette Richard, industry engagement coordinator, talks with her. The Ann Arbor YMCA is interested in hiring someone interested in becoming Day Camp staff.

Brett Hutcheon, a WCC alumni, shakes hands with Joshua Moore, a senior manager at City Year, after Moore shares what opportunities Hutcheon might have with the company.