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TCC Expects 50 Firms for April 14 Job Fair
Could break record attendance

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – (April 6, 2004) – With spring comes new growth, a new season for opportunities. For many students and job seekers, it’s time to draft or polish that resumé.

To assist job seekers and employers alike, Tidewater Community College will hold its annual Job Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 14, in the atrium of the Advanced Technology Center, Virginia Beach Campus.

The college has enlisted a record-breaking roster of 50 companies for job candidates to explore. They range from the Bank of America to Chesapeake General Hospital to FedEx to Gold Key Resorts to Lockheed Martin to Norfolk and Virginia Beach police departments to The Virginian-Pilot to Walgreen’s.

Last year’s job fair boasted 35 companies and broke a record with 550 job seekers in attendance. TCC’s first job fair, in 1999, drew about 250 visitors.

For more information, contact TCC’s Student Employment Services Office, 822-7228. Refreshments will be served.

Tidewater Community College is the second largest of the 23 community colleges in the Commonwealth of Virginia, enrolling more than 34,000 students annually. The 37 th largest in the nation’s 1,600 community-college network, TCC ranks among the 50 fastest-growing large community colleges.   Founded in 1958 as a part of the Virginia Community College System, the college serves the South Hampton Roads region with campuses in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach as well as the TCC Jeanne and George Roper Performing Arts Center in the theater district in downtown Norfolk, the Visual Arts Center in Olde Towne Portsmouth and a regional Advanced Technology Center in Virginia Beach. Forty-three percent of the region’s residents attending a college or university in Virginia last fall were enrolled at TCC.