
In these days of complaints from government agencies and private-sector businesses and nonprofits about short staffing and inabilities to find people willing and able to work, the City of Deltona hosted a job fair that drew hundreds looking to go to work or to move from one job to another.
The Feb. 28 employment expo at The Center at Deltona featured 26 employers, including the city government, seeking qualified personnel of various ages and varying skill levels from novice to experienced.
AdventHealth is looking for people to help those sick or injured and in need of care, and that care goes beyond what physicians and nurses provide. Representing AdventHealth Fish Memorial in Orange City are, from left, Chanel Gregory, coordinator of volunteer services, and Brena Rouse, coordinator of human resources. “This is more like informational to let them know we are hiring,” Rouse said.
“We have multiple government agencies,” Deltona Parks and Recreation Director Mark Manning told The Beacon. “We have retail, health care, real estate, construction and insurance.”
Manning said Deltona typically organizes job fairs “two or three times a year.”
There was something of a surprise that came from a law-enforcement agency elsewhere in the region, Manning noted.
“Osceola County contacted me. They’re recruiting for deputies up here,” he said.
The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office shows up in Deltona in search of people willing to serve in a difficult and demanding career field: law enforcement. From left are Deputies Brandon Soto and Will Hastings. What positions are waiting to be filled? “Deputies, investigators, pilots, IT [information technology],” Hastings replied, adding emergency dispatchers are also in demand. Hastings also related an interesting sidelight about another recent job fair he has attended: While recruiting for the Osceola Sheriff’s Office, he said, “the Coast Guard and the Army, and the federal prison system came over and tried to recruit me.”