More than 80 jobs are up for grabs for St. Clair College students Thursday afternoon.
The college is hosting a manufacturing job fair at the Ford Centre of Excellence in Manufacturing facility with interviews being held right on the shop floor — and the jobs go quickly according to Nour Hachem, the college's pre-apprenticeship project manager.
"We just wrapped up our pre-apprenticeship general machinist program where students went out into placement in August," says Hachem. "All of our students had jobs in August."
Hachem says the job fair is the first hosted at the Ford building and is meant to connect industry with students. It's not open to the general public.
She says despite Windsor's job market getting a bad rap for its high unemployment rate, there is strong demand for students in the manufacturing and engineering programs.
"They go out into Oldcastle, there's a lot of shops that have postings right outside their doors and they call me back and they're like 'I walked in at 10am and had a job by 1pm,'" says Hachem. "There are definitely many jobs in different areas of the manufacturing sector in Windsor that pay above minimum wage and provide job seekers the hands-on experience they're looking for."
There are more than 80 job postings from across Windsor and Chatham-Kent with students from the pre-apprenticeship Industrial Mechanic Program for Women, CAD CAM Program, and Industrial Mechanical Engineering Program getting the chance to fill the vacancies.
The job fair is scheduled to run from 3:30pm to 6pm.
