Fresno EOC Head Start 0 to 5 hosting job fair Saturday to fill dozens positions

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Those funny successful moving with young children volition person an accidental to commencement oregon turn a vocation successful aboriginal puerility acquisition this weekend, arsenic Fresno EOC Head Start Zero to Five hosts a occupation just to capable dozens of unfastened positions.

The aboriginal learning program, which serves children from zero to property 5, is seeking applicants for a wide scope of roles crossed its home-based and center-based programs.

"So we person thing from inclusion assistance, teacher assistance, tract supervisor, halfway directors, teachers, teacher caregivers for our Early Head Start children arsenic good arsenic household work assistants," said Early Childhood Education Coordinator Ralph Carrillo.

Carrillo said the enactment presently has astir 60 positions to fill, driven by retirements and unit members advancing into caller roles aft gaining further education.

"Over the people of the past respective years, we've seen galore unit commencement to discontinue out, arsenic good arsenic individuals specified arsenic teachers conscionable gaining further acquisition and aforesaid promoting into different positions," helium said.

The occupation just is scheduled for Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon astatine 1920 Mariposa St. successful Downtown Fresno. On-site interviews volition beryllium conducted, and applicants are encouraged to bring a existent résumé, assemblage transcripts, a grade if applicable, and letters of recommendation.

Minimum qualifications see a precocious schoolhouse diploma and astatine slightest 12 assemblage credits successful kid development. Carrillo said Head Start offers opportunities for semipermanent vocation growth.

"Like myself arsenic well, galore of my colleagues, we each started arsenic teacher assistants oregon teachers, and we've conscionable gone done the steps to positions of now, specialists, coordinators arsenic good arsenic managers and directors wrong Head Start," helium said.

Beyond nonrecreational development, Carrillo said employees worth the supportive enactment environment.

"We truly are precise family-oriented based, you cognize what I mean, not lone with the families that we're serving, but besides conscionable with the colleagues present astatine work," helium said. "We truly person go a household present and truly bask doing what we bash for our children and families successful the community."

Conditional occupation offers volition beryllium made astatine the occupation fair, and astir caller hires are expected to statesman onboarding wrong 2 to 4 weeks.

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