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Come along to our hiring event on Thursday March 10th at 3:00pm till 6:00pm

Learn more about the opportunities available to you!

Metropolitan Parkway Store & Donation Centre Hiring Event

Suzanne Chambers of Watkinsville, GA is the mother of four successful, grown children who have received more than $800K in collegiate scholarships. With more than 10 years of educational coaching experience, Suzanne helps you learn how to identify your child’s giftedness, the 7 life tools they need for success, and how to create a customized plan for your child. Targeted for parents of students in grades 5-12, this two-hour seminar will instruct and encourage you to help your child become successful after high school.

Welcome to the 2021 Central Illinois Introduction to the Building Trades Apprenticeships and Careers Day registration.  The intent of this event is to provide as much information to High School students, parents, administrators, teachers, and counselors about construction apprenticeships and how to go about getting started if interested.

Please select either the morning session 8:30am-12:00pm or the afternoon session 12:00pm-3:00pm. This will be an open type event, each school may arrive and depart anytime during the session or overlap the sessions if need be.  Plan for at least 2 hours for students to participate in the activities. This will be a “hands-on” event with many activities related to the trades. Each trade will have activities designed to give the students an idea of what each trade specializes in, along with information about each apprenticeship program. Please encourage the students to wear appropriate attire, including appropriate footwear. Parents, school administrators, and school board members are encouraged to attend as well.  Arrival and parking instructions will be sent by email the week before the event.  There will be door prizes and incentives to encourage student participation in the activities.

About this event

You’ve made it! Congratulations, you are in your final year of high school. This can be an exciting but overwhelming time, so let us help you get organized. Founder of the nonprofit Raising the Next Generation, Traci Bakenhaster, will outline what seniors and their families need to be doing in this final year of high school.

The publication of Frank Bruni’s Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be in 2015 brought common sense to the often-overwrought discussion of the college search and selection process.

At this Parent Education Series special event, Bruni takes the conversation to the next level to bring further common sense (and even inspiration) to a discussion of ways to realize the promise and potential of the college years.