Recruitment Day pairs employers with tomorrow's workforce
Published 09.09.2022
– Photos by Cindy Davis Meixel, writer/photo editor
Bookending a section of the campus mall’s north end, the semester's first On-Campus Recruitment Day enjoys rain-free weather and full-on engagement.
A perennially welcome addition to the colorful campus landscape is the sight of employers – in this case, The Lion Brewery (left) and Logoplaste USA – interacting with Penn College tomorrow makers.
A representative from Ellwood National Forge engages an attentive audience.
Gabe G. Sharkey (right), ’22, manufacturing engineering technology, returns to his alma mater for the event and converses with Connor Jay McWilliams, a welding & fabrication engineering technology student from Coatesville. Sharkey is an applications engineer with Hardinge Inc.
A lineup at Lockheed Martin’s booth
... with such employers as Greg Santi, senior human resources manager for Curtiss-Wright.
Connections made ... in the shade of a pop-up tent. Alumnus Christopher M. Schweikert, a manufacturing engineer at PDC Machines Inc., confidently shakes the hand of Paul Thomas Wardach Jr. (right), a metal fabrication technology student from Clarks Summit. Schweikert graduated in Spring 2021 with degrees in manufacturing engineering technology and automated manufacturing technology.
Students lend a collective ear to Bryan Harlacker, a 2000 manufacturing engineering technology alumnus working as a lead supervisor at Jabil Healthcare's Elmira, N.Y., facility.
Already hitting the ground running is Genevive J. Yamelski, of Hunlock Creek. The first-year machine tool technology student enjoyed gathering career information and networking ...