Labor Day week appropriately features hiring events
Published 09.08.2023
Photos by Cindy Davis Meixel, writer/photo editor; and Jennifer A. Cline, writer/magazine editor
![Career Services](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-09/Career%20Services.jpg?itok=cX1n5q-x)
There was no shortage of networking opportunities during the holiday-curtailed week, as Career Services kicked off its September lineup of Recruitment Days. Among programs in the spotlight were automated manufacturing & machining and welding & metal fabrication, which brought companies to the College Avenue Labs patio; and nursing, which paired job-hunting students with a variety of employers in the Breuder Advanced Technology & Health Sciences Center atrium.
![Under a Wildcat blue sky, matching canopies stretch out along the College Avenue Labs patio, attracting students.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-09/_7501980.jpg?itok=5guU8L9O)
![Derrick Schnetzka, a representative of Vulcan Materials Co., engages prospects by sharing images of the impressive equipment at the company’s York quarry, where he works.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-09/_7502076.jpg?itok=8lmETwli)
![Greg Esh, director of safety and human resources with Goodhart Sons Inc., a steel fabricator based in Lancaster, converses with Alaina S. Myers, of Hanover, a first-year student in welding & fabrication engineering technology.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-09/_7502107.jpg?itok=vCqz6ldZ)
![Penn State Health’s Renee Webster, Allison Scheetz and Nicole Cox tell nursing students about the benefits of working for the organization. Participating health care agencies offer a variety of work environents – including home health care, nursing homes, hospitals and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania faciltiies that include state hospitals, prisons and community nursing.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-09/Recruitment%20Day%20-%20Nursing%20046.jpg?itok=bkr34YOm)
![UPMC human resources recruiters Julie Tressler and Katelyn Morgan (on right in gray) provide information to pre-nursing student Cadence J. Copson, of Williamsport. They were joined by nurse leader Joshua Pauling and Devan Guinter (third from right), a 2014 Penn College nursing grad from South Williamsport.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-09/Recruitment%20Day%20-%20Nursing%20088.jpg?itok=j8dqSEOt)
![Pre-nursing students Zhanae K. Brown (left) and Makiyah A. Leeks talk with Jill Livermore, human resources director for The Williamsport Home.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-09/Recruitment%20Day%20-%20Nursing%20125.jpg?itok=NizcJ4IT)