Summerside Job Fair

Summerside job fair back again
S. RYAN QUIGLEY
Journal Pioneer

The Summerside Job Fair will be returning to the Waterfront Mall on Thursday April 7.
The event hosted by the East Prince Youth Development Centre and funded by the Canada/ Prince Edward Island Labour Market Development Agreement is gathering potential employers and some schools for residents to learn and apply for.
A wide variety of employers, 40 to be exact, will be showing up for the event, including Vector Aerospace, D.P. Murphy Inc. and Brother’s Two restaurant with Holland College among the schools being represented.
Melissa MacDonald, an organizer of the event, said there will be a lot of job opportunities for full time employment, but students won’t be left out.
“There’s lots of opportunity probably for summer employment if there’s students that are looking for that.”
People looking to apply should bring resumes, said MacDonald.
“There will be space available for people attending to sit and get themselves organized, for if they want to bring cover letters, resumes and anything else they’d like to hand out to potential employers.”
Brian Oulton, executive director of the P.E.I. Trucking Sector Council, an organization which helps guide people looking to become involved in the truck driving industry, said the Summerside job fair is as good as any on the Island.
“It’s more trade specific, we have a lot of people interested in coming into the trades, where if you go to a career fair at UPEI, it’s hard for us to find truck drivers.”
The council has been going to the job fair for the last three years is impressed with the organization of the event, said Oulton.
“The great thing is you have a room full of people either looking for career change or looking for specific work, so it’s just so much easier to promote it there.”