
Job seekers speak with representatives from several area businesses at the "Employment: Expanding Our Opportunities" job fair.
Toni Simmons believes in second chances. As a trainer for Goodwill’s Employability and Life Skills program at the Sarpy County Probation Center, Toni works to help people on probation find their place in the workforce. Participants work with Toni on life skills training, preparing resumes, mock interviews, and searching for jobs. After employment has been found, they continue to follow-up with her to assure the new job is going smoothly.
As another resource for her participants, Toni helped organize the “Employment: Expanding Our Opportunities” job fair on Wednesday, May 16.
She organized the event to be held at the probation center so she could observe the participants’ interactions with employers. Even if the participants didn’t land a job from Wednesday’s job fair, Toni can help them learn from the experience and continue to build job skills.
The job fair brought employers Sitel, Job Source USA, West, Hilton, Gallup and Creighton University. LaQuela Weathers, the “Coupon Queen,” offered advice on using coupons and checking store sales to save money. In just two hours, 71 job seekers made their way through the fair.
KETV stopped by and talked to a couple job seekers. Learn more about some of them at KETV.com.



Goodwill Industries and the Sarpy County Probation Office are hosting the “Employment: Expanding our Opportunities” job fair tomorrow — Wednesday, May 16, 2012. The event will be held at the Sarpy County Day Report Center at 7511 South 36th Street in Bellevue, NE from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.