Spring High School Career Fair

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Spring Northwest Montana High School Career Fair

Focused on long-term career opportunities, immediate hiring needs, summer employment, high school career connection, and seasonal workforce connections.

Date:  Thursday, April 16, 2026

Time: 8:45am -11am

Location: Flathead County Fairgrounds, Trade Center

Thank you to our Career & Job Fair Corporate Sponsors:

Immanuel Living, Logan Health, Nomad GCS, Weyerhaeuser, Bee Broadcasting

Questions? - Contact Jenn Cronk, Kalispell Chamber
Questions? - Contact Jenn Cronk, Kalispell Chamber

Thank you to the following businesses who exhibited at the Career Fair

  • A Plus Healthcare

  • Ace Heating & Air

  • Addus Home Care

  • Aflac

  • Affinity Living Communities

  • Alliance Title

  • Anderson Merchandisers

  • Applied Materials

  • Averill Hospitality

  • Bar W Guest Ranch

  • Bass Pro Shops | Cabela’s

  • BEE Broadcasting

  • Buckle

  • Captain’s Marine

  • Chrysalis Therapeutic Boarding School

  • Cinemark

  • Cleancut Tree Age Landscaping*

  • Columbia Falls School District 6

  • Comfort Systems USA Temp Right Service

  • Community Action Partnership of Montana

  • Cornerstone Caregiving

  • Crevier’s Academy of Cosmetology Arts*

  • Crowley Fleck Law Firm*

  • Dick Anderson Construction

  • Discount Tire

  • Dunham Sports

  • Easterseals-Goodwill

  • Enhabit Home Health and Hospice

  • Enterprise Mobility

  • Express Employment Professionals

  • Flathead City County Health Department

  • Flathead County Water District No. 1 - Evergreen

  • Flathead Harbor Resort

  • Flathead Hotshots*

  • Flathead Industries

  • Flathead Lake Alpine Coaster

  • Flathead Lake Biological Station*

  • Flathead Valley Community College

  • General Sheet Metal

  • GL Solutions

  • Glacier Bancorp

  • Glacier Bank

  • Glacier National Park

  • Glacier National Park Lodges

  • Glacier Stone Supply

  • Hammerquist Casalegno

  • Harlow’s School Bus Services, Inc.

  • Huckleberry Patch

  • IBEW Local 768

  • Ice Chest Express

  • Immanuel Living

  • InsideOut Services LLC

  • Installation Delivery & Storage LCC

  • Intermountain Truck Rebuilders*

  • Jackola Engineering & Architecture

  • Job Service Kalispell

  • Kalispell Assisted Living

  • Kalispell Park & Recreation / Woodland Waterpark

  • Kalispell Police Department

  • Kalispell Public Schools

  • Knife River

  • Laborers Union local 1686

  • Landscape Pros of Montana

  • LC Staffing

  • Lead the Way Logistics Inc

  • Logan Health

  • Marine

  • MOD Pizza

  • Montana Action Paintball

  • Montana Ace Hardware

  • Montana Air National Guard*

  • Montana Army National Guard

  • Montana Conservation Corps

  • Montana Department of Corrections

  • Montana Department of Transportation

  • Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks*

  • Mountainview Health & Rehab

  • Mountain Meadow Herbs

  • Nomad GCS

  • Park Side Credit Union

  • Picture Montana*

  • Professional Transportation, Inc.

  • Prosperity Training Center - Butte

  • Ptarmigan Village

  • RDJ Brothers, Inc

  • Rental Equipment Investment Corporation (REIC)

  • Sletten Construction

  • Sliter’s Lumber and Building

  • SmartLam

  • Smith Memorial Childcare

  • Smiths

  • Springs at Whitefish

  • Stampede Packing Company

  • Stockman Bank

  • Studio Beauty School Missoula*

  • Summit Beverage

  • Town Pump, Inc.

  • Three Rivers Bank of MT

  • TrailWest Bank

  • Trinity Lutheran Childcare Center

  • Unifi Aviation

  • United States Air Force

  • United States Postal Service

  • Walmart

  • Weyerhaeuser

Teachers/Schools

What to Expect

  • Upon arrival at the Fairgrounds, your bus (or car/van) will be greeted and directed toward your student drop-off location. 

  • Students will enter the Trade Center building from either the south or north entrances (as directed by Career Fair staff).

  • Your bus (car/van) will then be directed toward a designated parking area. Students, upon exiting the building, will be directed toward your parked bus/van/car.

  • Students will have 1 hour to visit with a wide variety of businesses and organizations representing a variety of industries and careers. Please consider asking students to set an alarm on their phones/watches to alert them as the time approaches for them to exit the building.

  • Flathead Valley Community College will also be present with several tables and program departments represented.

  • Encourage your students to review the list of participating businesses & organizations and identify their top 5 so that they make the best use of their time.

  • Encourage students to have a goal for each business/organization they meet with, such as: making a meaningful contact for follow up (getting name/email/phone/and/or business card), learn what type of careers are offered at a business/organization and type of training needed for the career that interests you most, learn about potential more immediate jobs (if of interest to the student – for after school, summer, post-graduation). 

  • Student Survey: Ask your students to complete the brief online survey of their experience while riding their bus/van/car back to your school. This survey provides valuable feedback that we will also share with you to understand the impact of this event for your students. (QR Code will be sent to you the week of 4/6- sheets w/the survey QR will also be handed out at the job fair

  • Food truck: note that they only ‘food truck’ planned to be operating on site during the career fair will be a coffee cart. This is primarily intended as a service to the exhibiting businesses.

  • Posse:  As in years’ past, we have asked the Flathead county Sheriff’s Posse to be onsite during the Career Fair as an assistance with attendance management and safety.

Students

What to Expect

  • You’ll have 1 hour to meet with a wide variety of businesses and industries from the Flathead Valley.

  • As the event approaches, review the list of participating businesses and organizations on the list above. Pick the top 5 that interest you the most.

  • For your top 5, look them up online to learn more about their businesses/organizations.

  • Determine what you most want to learn from each business/organization that you meet with – is it what kind of jobs they offer? Or is it a questions about a specific job/career? Do you have questions about what type of training or schooling is required for these jobs/careers? Do you have questions about average pay range for these jobs/careers? Are you interested in learning more about potential internships? Summer jobs? After-school jobs? Or employment immediately after graduation? Are you looking to get the name and contact information for an individual/department at this business so that you can follow up after the fair?

  • Plan to use your time wisely at the fair.  Allow for time to locate the businesses/organizations that you’d like to meet with at the event – it may take a few minutes to find their booth/s.  If a booth has a lot of students at it initially, move on to your next business of interest and circle back to the busy one later.

  • Set your alarm to leave the Trade Center at the time instructed by your school.

  • Take the student survey on the way back to your high school – your feedback helps us to not only improve the fair itself, but it also helps your school to understand more about what you learned at the day’s event.

  • Didn’t get enough time at the fair/didn’t get to meet with a business? If you can return in the afternoon, the fair turns into the job fair from 2-6pm on the same day (4/16) and you can continue to meet with businesses.  Or, if you are looking for a contact at a business that attended, please feel free to reach out to our planning team and we can help with connecting you with the business. Contact: Laura Gardner, Manager, Job Service Kalispell at lgardner@mt.gov or Jenn Cronk, Workforce & Special Initiatives Director at the Kalispell Chamber at j.cronk@kalispellchamber.com