Without a competent and robust labor pool the manufactured housing industry can’t thrive. FMHA understands the necessity to promote the abundance of job opportunities our industry has available. Eighty percent of students nationally will not complete a 4-year degree. These students need quality jobs, and our industry needs a prepared workforce to meet hiring needs and continue to grow. That’s …
Future Career Academy (FCA) is a program that prepares non-college-bound high school seniors for the workforce, and it has caught the attention of the business community, the school district and now the PTA/PTSA. On April 23, the Hillsborough County Council PTA/PTSA 2019-2020 High School Division Education Award was presented to FCA for its field trip component, which takes students to …
Home is where the heart is, and for Chuck Santaloaya, that place is Plant City. “That was really the only thing I really really wanted to be local here in Plant City,” said Santaloaya, who landed his dream job through a program at Plant City High School. Santaloaya is working as a parts representative at Stingray Chevrolet. And for a …
What started as a grassroots movement of volunteers looking to educate high school students on workforce development has grown into a new addition to the English class curriculum for hundreds of Hillsborough County seniors.
The Plant City Job Fair drew hundreds to the Trinkle Center on April 26. The first half of the day the event was open solely to high school students who were seeking future employment. At noon the doors were open to the public. The event consistently drew a large crowd throughout the day. At 12 p.m. there were approximately 100 …
PLANT CITY — Students from Plant City area high schools as well as members of the community can meet today with businesses looking for new hires in the Plant City area. Hosted in the Trinkle Center at Hillsborough Community College’s Plant City campus, the event will kick off at 9 a.m. today with Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam addressing several hundred …
Graduating seniors need jobs. Employers need employees. But sometimes there is a failure to connect — and both sides may flounder. In Plant City, they’re trying to do something about that. A grass roots movement, of sorts, has been growing. “We’re wanting to make those connections so we just continue to prosper,” explains Yvonne Fry, Chief Fry Cook at Fryed Egg Productions, a …
The Plant City Job Fair will be held April 26 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the HCC Trinkle Center, 1206 N. Park Road. The community’s top employers will be present and looking for new employees. Those interested in starting a career in administration, health care, construction, manufacturing, distribution or sales should come with their resumes and a go-getting …
Some came with résumés, some came with questions and intrigue. All left with knowledge of opportunities for the future in Plant City. The 2017 Plant City Future Fair was held at the John R. Trinkle Center at Hillsborough Community College Tuesday, April 18. After an inaugural event for Plant City High School students last year, this year’s expo with over …
It was a bus ride of opportunity Friday, Jan. 27, for 100 seniors from Plant City High School. Students departed at 8 a.m. on two buses from 1 Raider Place to learn about job opportunities post-graduation. But the buses didn’t drive to Tampa or Lakeland or even Bradenton. Instead, they stopped at four major employers in the Winter Strawberry Capital …
