City Of Louisville: Louisville Metro Government Hosts Career Fair To Promote Well-Paying Metro Positions

Press release from the City of Louisville:

March 04, 2022

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Louisville Metro Government today announced new, aggressive steps to identify, recruit, and hire employees to provide necessary services to the city’s residents during the most volatile job market in recent American history.

The steps include a career fair this month allowing the public to interact with more than 25 city departments looking to fill over 600 vacant positions.

“Like any diverse community ready to thrive, Louisville faces challenges and obstacles that will rely on diligent and innovative city workers,” said Mayor Greg Fischer. “Economic trends have made attracting and retaining good employees deeply challenging, so we hope this career fair and the recent wage adjustments and incentives attract the best and brightest to join the Louisville Metro Government team.”

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Ernestine Booth-Henry, Director of Human Resources for Metro Government, said the career fair will be instrumental in helping the city recover from two years of labor uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Like all businesses throughout the community, we have seen changes in how people view their careers and how they interact with their employers,” Booth-Henry says. “People are looking for more meaningful careers and greater empowerment in how they perform the work they do. They want flexible work schedules and opportunities to work from home, and in navigating the pandemic. We have learned that Louisville Metro Government is able to offer those opportunities for many of our positions.”

The career fair, to be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on March 17 at the Muhammad Ali Center, 144 N. Sixth St., will provide the public the chance to ask questions of hiring managers from all Metro Government departments and to apply for positions on-site.

Job openings cover a huge range of skills and interests, and all levels of experience and education. People can register to attend on-line and are encouraged to bring their resumes. Masks will be required to attend.

In addition to the career fair, Metro Government’s Human Resources department has recently added a new position dedicated to recruiting employees.

Johnathan Dow began work in November 2021 as the department’s Talent Acquisition Coordinator.

Talent and Retention Administrator Shante Thaxton said: “Because the hiring needs across Metro Government are so diverse, our past practice was to support individual departments in their recruiting efforts. In this increasingly competitive job market, however, we now see a need to coordinate the efforts of all departments, showing the public that a career with Metro Government is open to practically everyone in our community. John is going to be a critical player in this new focus.”

Dow added: “Effective and result-driven recruitment can never take place in a silo. Recruitment is more than getting others to join us. It is pairing an organization’s mission, goals, and values with those of like-minded attitudes and experience. Luckily for me, Metro Government has products and services that can be marketed to all segments of society, along with career paths that provide for the future development of its employees.”

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