{"id":26892,"date":"2019-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-career-services-hosts-government-and-nonprofit-job-fair\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:52:35","slug":"tarleton-career-services-hosts-government-and-nonprofit-job-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-career-services-hosts-government-and-nonprofit-job-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton Career Services hosts Government and Nonprofit Job Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, October 1, 2019<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas &mdash;&nbsp;Tarleton State University&rsquo;s Career Services Center hosts its first-ever Government and Nonprofit Job Fair from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p>The event takes place in the Thompson Student Center Ballrooms on the Stephenville campus.<\/p>\n<p>The free come-and-go fair allows students, alumni and the community an opportunity to meet with government and nonprofit related businesses that are currently hiring. Participants are encouraged to bring their r&eacute;sum&eacute; and other applicable materials. Business casual or business professional attire is suggested but not required.<\/p>\n<p>The fair includes recruiters for law enforcement, social services, security, civically oriented services, nonprofit organizations, municipal, city, county, state, and federal entities and others.<\/p>\n<p>For a list of employers attending the fair, go&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tarletonstate.us\/govtfair-employers\">http:\/\/tarletonstate.us\/govtfair-employers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Employers can register to participate for free through Handshake at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tarletonstate.us\/govtfair-register\">http:\/\/tarletonstate.us\/govtfair-register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Free registration&nbsp;includes one table for up to two representatives, parking, and hospitality. The fee for additional representatives is $15 per person, and additional tables are available for $5 each.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Career Services at 254-968-9078 or&nbsp;careers@tarleton.edu.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&amp;M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today&rsquo;s scholars into tomorrow&rsquo;s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Phil Riddle, News and Information Specialist<br \/>817-484-4415<br \/><a href=\"mailto:priddle@tarleton.edu\">priddle@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarleton State University&rsquo;s Career Services Center hosts its first-ever Government and Nonprofit Job Fair from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Oct. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research","category-campus-community"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/10\/Spring-Flowers-Admin-Gates_7545-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/campus-community\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 1, 2019","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 1, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 9:52 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Tarleton State University entrance with flags and flowers.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54306,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26892\/revisions\/54306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}