Last day of Career Fair 2002
April 8, 2002
More than 100 employers are recruiting Sacramento State students today at the Spring Career Fair. The Career Fair is continuing through today, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., in the University Union Ballroom. Profiled below are five of the organizations that will be recruiting.
Gambro is a medical technology and healthcare company with more than 35 years of experience making dialysis products, operating dialysis clinics and supplying blood bank technology around the world. It began in 1964, with the creation of the first plate dialyzer, and now has more than 20,000 employees working to deliver blood and cell products.
In the 1950s, the Milhous family provided a home for developmentally disabled delinquent boys. The Milhous Children Services group has since made the change from being a single family home serving developmentally disabled boys to a multi-care facility serving severely emotionally disturbed children. There are seven facilities and three programs where psychiatrists, therapists, teachers and childcare professionals work together to help children in need.
The San Diego CHOICE program, a part of the San Diego State University Foundation, provides assistance to at-risk youth between the ages of 9 to 17. CHOICE workers are recent college graduates who supervise and act as a role model to the children at home, school and in the community.
The Drug Enforcement Administration enforces drug laws and regulations and brings growers, distributors and manufacturers of illegal substances to the criminal justice system. Once those people are caught, the DEA recommends programs that work to reduce the access and availability of illegal drugs.
Founded in 1969, Southern Wine and Spirits of California is the largest wine and spirits distributor of California, with more than 2,000 employees. Southern Wine and Spirits distributes both non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages to more than 50,000 locations throughout California.
The employees at Harris and Associates like to think of themselves as “infrastructuralizationists,” according to the company?s Web site. The nearly 30-year-old, employee-owned company specializes in planning, design and construction management and has job opportinities throughout California for people trained in engineering, business, computer science and management.
For information on all of the companies that will be recruiting at the fair, visit the career center?s Web site at www.csus.edu/careercenter.