{"id":157897,"date":"2024-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=157897"},"modified":"2024-04-25T19:36:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:36:33","slug":"fort-cavazos-participates-in-first-all-army-career-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=157897","title":{"rendered":"Fort Cavazos participates in first all-Army career fair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Dymarie Camps, left, chief of human resources for the Directorate of Public Works, and Davyd Smith, deputy chief of police for the Directorate of Emergency Services, talk to attendees at the Army-only career fair April 13 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
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\n Members from all six of the directorates on Fort Cavazos pose for a picture with Col. Lakicia Stokes, U.S. Army Garrison-Fort Cavazos commander, at the Army-only career fair April 13 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
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ARLINGTON, Texas<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Fort Cavazos participated in the first Army-only career fair April 13 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, reaching people near and far, Army and civilian.<\/p>\n

With more than 43 commands participating, the career fair was large, playing host to many people not only from Texas, but across the nation.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Army Installation Management Command coordinated garrisons\u2019 involvement at the career fair, said Gwendolyn Kimmich, chief of the staffing\/classification branch at IMCOM. Allowing the garrisons to join the career fair was a good opportunity, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 It allowed (garrisons) to tell the story of what they do on a day-to-day basis, kind of really letting applicants know what to expect if they were to go work in one of these locations and organizations and kind of what they would do for the Army as a civilian,\u201d Kimmich explained.<\/p>\n

Fort Cavazos had two booths at the fair manned by people from all six of the directorates \u2014 Directorate of Emergency Services, Directorate of Public Works, Directorate of Human Resources, Directorate of Aviation Operations, Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security, and the Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation\/Army Community Service \u2014 on post.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was Army exclusive,\u201d said Shelley Tippens, workforce development chief, of the career fair. \u201cIt went really well. \u2026 It was a considerable amount of people from the area (who attended) and there were even some Soldiers that drove up from here, from Fort Cavazos, to the actual event, looking for possible positions (for civilians).\u201d<\/p>\n

The booths advertised open civilian positions from the directorates, with even a few having the ability to direct hire. These jobs included security guards, dispatcher, maintenance mechanic, information technology specialist and equipment operator, Tippens said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this particular event, it was to highlight the Army but it\u2019s also to give individuals another opportunity because, a lot of times, federal jobs go unnoticed,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople, especially students, they just don\u2019t know. They don\u2019t know that those opportunities are available, and we did have quite a few students come through the area, even some that were from out of town, who heard about the event, flew in, that were actually graduating in May. Events like that open the door for those opportunities that are unnoticeable, opens the door for those people that we normally would not touch.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Tracy Crawford, director of Aviation Operations, DAO, had no positions to advertise, he went to tell his story as a Department of the Army civilian and the positives of Fort Cavazos.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re not within that Department of Defense bubble, there\u2019s a lot of uncertainty,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026 So, I wanted to talk to that, about the career opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI talked so long to so many people that I was hoarse at the end of the day,\u201d Crawford added. \u201cI talked nonstop to people and finding out what they were interested in, what their backgrounds were, showing how a Department of the Army civilian career might best fit their skills and experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawford said he was able to take several resumes from attendees and distribute them to his garrison partners.<\/p>\n

He concluded, \u201cThe way I look at it, if one person ultimately gets hired from that action, it was successful for that recruiting event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 \/ 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Dymarie Camps, left, chief of human resources for the Directorate of Public Works, and Davyd Smith, deputy chief of police for the Directorate of Emergency Services, talk to attendees at the Army-only career fair April 13 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. (Photo Credit: Courtesy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157899,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157902,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157897\/revisions\/157902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}