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
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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/survey link below)
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.
SURVEY QR: (to be added)
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