California Students Network with Employers at Fall 2024 Job Fair

Employers who place a high value on critical thinking and effective communication visited the campus of Thomas Aquinas College, California, earlier this month to meet, interview, and advise students at the Fall Job Fair. Students stopped by employers’ booths in St. Cecilia Hall, chatting with professionals about law, insurance, tech, education, healthcare, sales, and manufacturing — as well as internship and post-graduation employment opportunities.

“Patmos has always viewed TAC as the best-kept hiring secret in tech. With AI on the rise, the world needs those with an authentically liberal education to enter tech now more than ever.”

The group of employers included several alumni, including Justin Alvarez, Esq. (’97), founder of The Alvarez Firm, and Peter LaFave (’13), a strategic sourcing consultant for Elevance Health, as well as other admirers of the College. “It’s impossible for a company to teach a new hire how to think, even when they come in with many technical skills,” observed John Johnson, founder and CEO of Patmos, a cloud solutions and AI services provider. “That’s why Patmos has always viewed TAC as the best-kept hiring secret in tech. With AI on the rise, the world needs those with an authentically liberal education to enter tech now more than ever.”

Some recruiters also saw the culture of faith among the students as an asset in hiring. “It’s very important to find faithful Catholic students who bring that mission with them when they go into the workforce,” said Gabriela Thurau, a representative of the Classical Learning Test.