“Mo Power to You:” a two day resource and hiring event

By Stephanie Meador, posted Jan 4, 2023 on BizFayetteville.com

NC Works Career Center Cumberland County, The Mo You Know, Mo’s Heroes, FTCC and Surgeon & Associates will host a career and resource expo Jan. 25 and 26 at TJ Robinson Life Center in Hope Mills.

These organizations have joined forces to connect companies who are hiring to a market of talents in NC for free. This training, informational, resource, and employment event aims to greatly benefit and significantly impact the Sandhills region labor force. The career fair is a hiring and networking event that provides job seekers with the unique opportunity and platform for hiring managers to meet, interact and interview talents at no cost to both parties. Career opportunities will be available in positions ranging from entry-level to management.

The event program spans two days with the first day dedicated to providing job seekers access to soft skills acquisition and training including resume building, interview assessment, dress code and workplace etiquette training, entrepreneurial guidance, veterans affairs, and information and counseling on disability benefits.

Day two is the career fair. Over 100 firms and resource agencies and at least 500 or more job seekers and applicants from the Sandhills region are anticipated to attend. Both days start at 9 a.m. and go until 5 p.m. Application and attendance are open to all above the age of 16 though veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses are priority—there will even be a workshop dedicated to Veterans’ benefits.

The event is meant to cater to everyone’s needs and the organizers hope to make it accessible to those who might face barriers to finding employment opportunities. “We have a transportation company that’s going to be doing some shuttling between NC Works and the TJ Robinson Life Center because there’s no public transportation in Hope Mills or Spring Lake, just Fayetteville, so transportation is a really huge barrier…And we're also working with the Marcus Doss Salon to do grooming prior to the event because sometimes just looking the part is half the battle…” shared Business and Marketing Coach ShaDonna “Mo” McPhaul.

Employers invited to attend to scout potential employees include Amazon, Duke Energy, vectrus, Cumberland County schools, Lowe's, Fayetteville Public Works, Cape Fear Valley Medical System, Walmart distribution, Kellogg's, US Customs and Border Patrol, KBR, Halliburton, city of Fayetteville, General Dynamics, Military Sealift Command, Smithfield Foods, Goodyear, Chemours, Mann+Hummel, Cargill, AAFEES, RLM, Applied Materials, CACI, Sampson Regional Medical Center, Watts Water, Pike Electricity and more.

“If you feel like you aren’t equipped for this event, that should be your biggest motivator to come to this event. Because we want to equip you with the things that you need,” shared Mo.

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