{"id":9928,"date":"2026-04-21T20:31:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=9928"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:31:53","slug":"troy-students-make-career-connections-at-hsjc-career-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/04\/21\/troy-students-make-career-connections-at-hsjc-career-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy students make career connections at HSJC Career Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Resumes in hand and confidence on display, students packed the Trojan Center Ballroom ready to make an impression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-arts-humanities\/departments\/hall-school-journalism-communication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hall School of Journalism and Communication<\/a> Career Fair was not just about finding a job. It was also about starting conversations that could lead students to their lifelong career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We send students all the way from freshman to the senior level to these things,&#8221; said Dr. Hanna Cooper, a lecturer in the Hall School of Journalism and Communication. &#8220;Really, the goal here is to get your best front forward and get you in front of some of these people that could later be your employers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Come with name cards, be confident, because you&#8217;ve been doing the work for so long at this point and time. Really it&#8217;s just an opportunity for you to showcase the skills you&#8217;ve already had.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/04\/21\/troy-welcomes-digital-content-producer-nathaniel-rodriguez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>NEWS FOR YOU: Troy welcomes digital content producer Nathaniel Rodriguez<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From broadcast newsrooms to public service, employers like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsfa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WSFA12 News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdhn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WDHN<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldot.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alabama Department of Transportation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WAFF<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/fullercenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Fuller Center for Housing<\/a> came to look for fresh potential. For students, every handshake was a chance to stand out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Networking can have them a job,&#8221; said Vrund Shah, an Administrative Assistant for the Troy University Career Services. &#8220;Almost 80% of the jobs that are currently filled up are through networking and insider references.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is exactly what the event was built for: turning quick introductions into lasting connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think this a great opportunity to network both for the companies that are here as well as the students who are here,&#8221; said Sally Pitts, the News Director of WSFA 12. &#8220;For WSFA, this is a chance for us to meet the students Troy University currently has. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have so many Troy graduates at WSFA and we know that the Hall School of Journalism and Communication is an excellent program.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a competitive job market, moments like these can make all the difference, where one conversation today could become a career tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Resumes in hand and confidence on display, students packed the Trojan Center Ballroom ready to make an impression. <\/p>\n<p>The Hall School of Journalism and Communication Career Fair was not just about finding a job. It was also about starting conversations that could lead students to their lifelong career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We send&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/04\/21\/troy-students-make-career-connections-at-hsjc-career-fair\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":9991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[289,46,112,1046],"topics":[2412,17],"class_list":["post-9928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-career-fair","tag-hall-school-of-journalism-and-communication","tag-hsjc","tag-journalism","topics-college-of-fine-arts-and-humanities","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9990,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions\/9990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9928"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=9928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}