15-05-2025
Vision Together 2025 hosts career fair for Johnstown middle schoolers
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WTAJ) — Vision Together 2025 is continuing to work with the Greater Johnstown School District to host career fairs.
On Wednesday, the organization visited the Greater Johnstown Middle School and brought several companies with them, for the 'A Vision Together' Kids Career Fair. The event was designed to introduce students who are middle school-aged to local career opportunities while connecting parents with employment resources.
Rob Forcey, Executive Director of Vision Together 2025, spoke about having a career fair for younger students.
'For some kids, it is too soon. I mean, it's going to take a while, and every kid develops differently and stuff like that. But if you give a kid a dream and you give them a goal at the beginning, how they get to that dream is going to be up to them,' Forcey said.
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Lyric and Milan Cohen are sisters and students at the middle school. They attended Wednesday's career fair. Lyric hopes to go into the Air Force or become a Basketball player. Milani wants to pursue a career in the culinary field. They said the career fair gave them ideas and helped to push them in the right direction.
'I learned that you don't always need to choose one option. You have other options,' Angelo Owens, a fifth grader said.
Students were also given bags filled with employment resource packets to take home to their parents. It ensures parents have access to valuable job opportunities and career advancement tools within the local workforce.
'We're trying to make it for all three schools so that students have a better awareness, like what skills and abilities are needed and what jobs are available here in the community, and just try to educate our students so that they are able to make a better decision what they want to do with their life, and what they need to do, to be successful,' Eddie Mikesic, College Career & Military Readiness Coordinator at the Greater Johnstown School District said.
Forcey said the organization is working to get funding so they can expand to six other school districts in the area and continue the career fairs.
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