The Morning Call Career Fair comes to Center Valley on Nov. 13

By Shannon Sigafoos

Nearly 30 area employers will be attending The Morning Call Career Fair on Tuesday, November 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Homewood Suites by Hilton in Center Valley. Are you ready? A wide variety of employment opportunities, from entry-level to professional level including full and part-time positions in teaching, health care, warehouse management, traffic control, security, software development, mechanical technology and culinary will be available. Attendance is free and open to the public. Parking is also free.

Companies slated to attend the event include: Traffic Plan; Phoebe Ministries; PA Army National Guard; Lehigh Heavy Forge; Step by Step, Inc.; Comfort Keepers; Sands Bethlehem; Gracedale Nursing Home County of Northampton; Uline; Easton Coach Company; IQOR; HCR Manorcare; Lehigh Career & Technical Institute; RCN Telecom Services, LLC; FedEx Ground; Muhlenberg

College Wescoe School of Continuing Education; Inperium Management Services; Health Network Laboratories; Tobyhanna Army Depot; East Penn Mfg (Dekka Battery); DSC Logistics; Student Transportation of America; Ideal Concepts, Inc.; ATAS International, Inc.; Avery Dennison; Aldi; The Morning Call; and Special People in Northeast, Inc.

Many employers return to the Morning Call Career Fair year after year because they know that they can rely on meeting with many qualified candidates throughout the event.

“Our team has been involved in The Morning Call’s career fairs for many years. It’s the perfect environment to meet up with job seekers looking to re-train for a new career,” says Molly Brown, Senior Director of Marketing at the Muhlenberg Wescoe School of Continuing Education. “We enjoy being part of this local effort to help displaced or underemployed people move in a positive direction. The Wescoe School is eager to help in this way and the Career Fair is often the first step in a life-changing process for many who attend.”

“We continue to attend the Morning Call career fairs because of the huge success that we always have there,” says Ashlee Baker, Traffic Plan recruiter for the state of Pennsylvania.

The Lehigh Valley’s unemployment rate, as reported in October, was at 4.5 percent, with an estimated 18,000+ people in the region out of work. The biggest gains month to month this past summer were in transportation, warehousing and wholesale trade, which the state said continued to set records. The government recorded 30,700 jobs in the sector in August, which was up 500 from July. Transportation and warehousing is the Valley’s second-fastest growing sector behind manufacturing. As is customary, seasonal employment is expected to pick up nationwide beginning this month and will bring additional jobs to the region until the new year.

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, which updated (September 2018) data on November 2, Education and Health Services have continued to employ the greatest number of people across all job sectors in the Valley.

If you are planning to attend the Career Fair on November 13, you are encouraged to pre-register at themorningcall.com/careerfair (pre-registration is not necessary for event attendance).