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Published March 22, 2008 06:05 pm - Wallace State students visit career fair By Patrick McCreless and David Lazenby
The Cullman Times First-year Wallace State College student Audra Armstrong weaved her way through a string of different health care employers Tuesday as they each attempted to cultivate her favor. A pre-nursing major, Armstrong’s problem is not job availability — it is deciding which place she wants to work. “I’m not worried about getting a job,” Armstrong said with a grin. She has good reason to be confident. Across the country, the health care industry faces a veritable drought of nurses. Aware of this shortage, hundreds of Wallace State nursing students turned out for the first day of the community college’s annual career fair in the Tom Drake Coliseum, as did representatives from nearly 100 health care employers. “They’re really short in registered nursing,” Brandi Baird said of the health care industry. Baird is a first-year pre-nursing major with aspirations of becoming a registered nurse for Children’s Hospital in Birmingham. Representatives with Encore Rehabilitation, Inc. out of Decatur had their hands full dealing with students like her. “We’ve been really busy ... this morning (Tuesday) we saw a couple hundred,” said John Henderson, director of industrial relations for Encore. “We interviewed for occupational therapy. There were a lot of great candidates.” Encore currently employees over 300 people and provides multiple services such as industrial rehabilitation, sports medicine and sports performance enhancement. LuRu Jones, regional recruiter for Encore, was impressed not just with the amount of students who showed up, but also with how they presented themselves. “Their students always come professionally dressed and come with a resume,” Jones said. “They have a very professional occupational therapy program here. Preparing students before they come here is a real plus. We usually end up hiring several from the school each year.” For Teresa Bell, director of nursing for Golden Living Center, the Wallace State career fair was a first. “It’s been good, we’ve gotten some good response,” Bell said. “We had applications on the table ... they’ve disappeared.” 
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