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over Zoom was really convenient for me,” Yamada says. “I finally reached out and decided to participate.” Evan Wolters, a junior landscape management major at BYU – Provo, says he decided to participate this year to gain exposure to the many different opportunities within the industry. At the career fair, students could
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next year’s NCLC to be held at NC State University on March 16-19, 2022.
schedule interviews with 77 different companies and most came with clear goals for what they wanted to accom- plish. For Hampton, his main goals were to interview with at least three compa- nies and to help Auburn win the team competition. He ended up speaking with Hursthouse, Proven Winners, Milosi Landscape and Designscapes Colorado. Yamada is planning to attend graduate school next year but used the career fair to keep an eye out for any summer internship opportunities. Wolters, who already has an intern- ship lined up for the summer, used the career fair to learn about companies that he would be interested in working for after graduation.
On the landscape company side of the career fair, there were also first-time
participants, like Maggie Montes, human resources manager for Live Green Landscape Associates, based in Reis- terstown, Maryland. Montes says most of the students they spoke to were interested in internships, but they also talked about their full-time positions. “I believe that it is essential for companies to participate in the career fair because we get to meet excellent students from all over the country,” Mon- tes says. “Some of them want to make the radical change of moving halfway across the nation to do what they’re passionate about. Those are the people we wish to bring aboard. People that add to our company’s culture and make us the award-winning company that we are. Plus, they are the ones that are also helping us eliminate the massive mis- conception about our industry. They get to tell us what they are all about, and we get to put our company out there a bit more.” For Jacob Hong, people and culture director for Southview Design, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, this was his third year attending NCLC, but his first as an industry professional. He says they talked to students about internships,
general information, and processes and procedures within a company. “The time also allowed us to under- stand their schooling, programs, and hopes and dreams,” Hong says. “All of the students that I spoke to will have bright futures in this industry.” Hong says participating in the career fair is one way they can give back and show students the professionalism of the industry, the doors that will open for them and how their lives can change. “We have an amazing team at South- view that has insights from being in the industry, and if we can help answer any student’s questions about what their future might be like we hope we can make that happen,” Hong says. Both Hong and Hampton expressed their hopes for an in-person next year. “The layout of this year’s NCLC allows for a lot of flexibility, contrary to in-per- son NCLC events where teams would have to dedicate around a week away from class to compete,” Hampton says. “Overall, I feel that this year’s NCLC was a great adaptation of the original, but I can’t wait for the time when NCLC is held in-person again.” TLP
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