Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time for our community connection right here on K one, the one
you dressed in. We have Randall Jones in here from Try County Tech.
How you doing man, Man doing good? Always an great opportunity when I
get to come over here and talk about all the great things going on.
Well, we have a great thing coming up. We have a what a
career pairs. Yeah, so it's been a while since we've hosted one,
but we're hosting a career fair and so we've got some of our partner high
schools that'll be coming, all of our students will be coming over to it.
We'll have a morning session in an afternoon on the twenty eighth, and
where we've got to hold this right right there in our Tri County campus.
So we're going to have we've got rooms ready and we'll have tables set up.
But if you're a business and you kind of looking for employees, man,
this is a great opportunity to come and get get in front of our
students and they're gonna have resumes ready and kind of talk about why your business
would be a great place for our students to come to work and we'd love
to have you coming soup table. If I have a business and I'm interested
in this, how do I get a hold of it? And who do
I get a hold of it? Tricottie. Yeah, yeah, you can
shoot me an email at Randall dot Jones at Tri Countytech dot edu. But
there's a link for the vendor registration on our Facebook page. We've shared it.
There's an event there. You can go there, click that event and
it'll open the registration and you can register just a few short questions. It's
a simple form. It's free of charge, so we're not even charging you
to come up, and we'll even feed you lunch. So yeah, hot
dog. And of course you got the best students around, all best and
that's you know. One of the things that I love about Tri County is
we don't just want students to come and attend and get certifications. We want
to see them because real success comes if after they leave our doors, when
they step into the workforce, and so we're preparing them for that. But
we also want to help make connections for them for their future success and the
career that they want to choose. And we want to help get them and
that happens when we partner with great businesses here and to get our students there
and get them jobs and get them working. Ever since Trike County tackles up
and running, and we've been partnering with each other, with the community,
with the businesses, and with the folks who really need good skilled workers.
Yes, sir, absolutely, and it's been a partnership that has worked hand
in glove for several decades. Absolutely, and we just excited to see that
continuing to grow. So, I mean, we have students that are coming
to us and they're you know, maybe when they graduate, they want to
go on to college. So we've got some we're gonna have universities there that
are gonna be able to talk to those students. We have students that want
to leave us and go to the military to use their certifications in the service,
and so we're gonna have recruiters there and talking to students that want to
go that route. And then some of our students are going to go right
to the workforce and start a career and build on that. And that's what
we want businesses there for to get get them going. And this is a
great place to get it done, Like you said, if business has not
going to cost to anything, not even feed and you probably walk home with
the good recruits as far as their resumes are concerned. For sure, this
is the place to make it happen. It's a win win for everybody.
And that's the kind of solutions that we expect to try. Everybody win.
Absolutely. I'm gonna like to encourage you if your local business and say,
hey, you know, I'm fully staffed right now, but you know,
you don't know when that's gonna change, and you don't know when that's going
to happen. And even if it doesn't happen for a while, I mean,
just being a part of an event like this to get our students really
great practice and meeting you and you meeting them and helping them develop as an
employer or you as an employer and them develop as an employee is a great
aspect and we'd love to have you come out and be a part of that.
Oh. Indeed, indeed, indeed. Now, one thing that's great
about Trike County Tech is that when the students leave, they usually don't owe
a dime. Yeah, And so if you're an employee, you have to
worry about that right then, I got a lot of student debt coming over
their heads and so and know that, you know the guys that the teachers
that are teaching them in those in their programs are coming from industry, and
we have advisory boards that are a part of our programs as well. So
our students aren't just setting in a classroom, they're working in labs, hands
on experience, hearing from experts who have been in the industry for a while.
So they're coming out ready for the career field that they're going into.
And that's great. And if you're thinking of this, if you're a student,
or if you're a parent or guardian or a student. As far as
becoming a student a Try County Tech, it's nothing but pluses across the board,
absolutely because you can either just walk out after you get certified, go
to work, or if you want to go to college. You have ways
of even integrating the hours of Try County Tech with partnering universities. Right we
have articulation agreements and with the State Career, the Career of Oklahoma sign a
deal where we've got some especially for our nursing students, with multiple options for
different universities that will recognize those hours. We have one right here locally with
Oklahoma Westland recognizing those hours and giving a tuition scholarship or waiver for our students
that leave from up to fifty percent scholarship. So that's amazing deal. And
that comes across any of our programs. And we're we're recruiting right now for
our adult programs coming up in August. Braid's getting ready to do high school
enrollment. He's been out recruiting really heavy and we'll let them know the first
week of April. So that's coming out real quick too. So lot's going
on. You know. The thing is with the adult programs, Folks were
saying, well, how does that work? Well, usually it happens well
when you have been out in the workforce for a little bit and you realize
that you've got something going on here, but maybe you could do a little
bit better. Yeah, and that's where folks start to challenge themselves a little
bit. And I got to tell you, if you're on the fence,
don't sit there too long, because these classes for adults fill up. For
Yeah, we get a lot of them filled up, and we're kind of
changing dynamics of some different things. Too, looking at some quarterly enrollment,
so we'll offer where you know, our welding class will be you can every
three months, we're going to take openings. We'll have openings for welding class
so you can try to help get more students in and more and more students
out. We're going to be structuring some of other programs just like that here
in the real near future. So I'm really excited about it to get more
students the help that they need so that they can have the future and success
and the career that they want. And you know something I don't oh of
a welder that's ever been without work, No, because there's a high demand.
It's not going away. Yeah, it's a high demand skill for sure.
And you know, every one of the guys I've worked with have always
been busy. Yeah. Another problem. We just restructured our so we used
to be medical office Specialists. It's now certified Medical Assistant administrator. Okay,
a couple of nights a week and you get the intro to anatomy and physiology
and so it's a great class. The enrollment for its open right now and
that class will start in April. So we've got some openings coming up for
that, so nice. Yeah, paramedic, We've got openings coming for paramedic
too. We're going to start offering that once a year. But our Anatomy
and Physiology, which is an intro course to that program, starts in April.
So if that's something any of you EMTs out there who are interested to
take it to the next level, want to become a paramedic, shoot me
an email, give me a call, Mike. Goodness sakes, it's always
happening and you're taking a little bit of time for like spring break or fall
breakdown. Other than that, it's just constant and it's really a good thing
because as you're seeing students come in, you're seeing students graduate, and every
now and then, if you of them come back, just say how do
you see how things are going? Don't They absolutely? And we love it.
It's an awesome thing to get them to come back and share with our
students of the success they've had after they finished. We have so many of
those and so it's great to have that opportunity. Well, okay, here,
so how you can be a part of that success story. If you
have a business and you're looking to hire people or maybe perhaps down the road
thinking about adding on some positions. This is where you need to go to
set up your booth yea, And it doesn't cost a die and Randlem's going
to feed you. And it's all out there at Track County Tech. And
the date is March twenty eighth, So I have two sessions. We want
you to stay the whole time with us, but we'll have a morning session
from nine to noon and then you come back at twelve forty five until two
forty five. Oh, they'll be camping out there. Let's go. Just
get a hold of Rantle there at the Universe right County Tech, and we'll
get you all situated. This is gonna be a good time. This is
gonna be really an eye opener here too, not only for the students,
right, but because they're ready to go for sure, but also an eye
opener for maybe businesses who have heard of try County Tech but not really have
been, you know, uh meshed in with them to the point where others
have. Now there are a lot of businesses in town who have and they
kind of rely on what we are trying to try County Tech. We trained
to work for us and everything else like that. But if you're new to
the game a little bit, hey, this is this is a great way
to spend your day. This is a great way to talk to some prospective
employees. Yeah, without a doubt, it's a it's a great opportunity for
you to see the kind of students that we have here locally, that that
are that are coming out ready to go, and we'd love to have you
be a part of it. So alrighty, hey, thank you, Randa,
I know problem, thanks for having me. All right, folks,
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