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

Connect With These Businesses, Industries, and Organizations

  • A Plus Healthcare

  • Ace Heating & Air

  • Addus Home Care

  • Aflac

  • Animal Clinic of Kalispell*

  • Applied Materials

  • Averill Hospitality

  • Bass Pro Shops | Cabela’s

  • BEE Broadcasting

  • Big Brother Big Sisters of NW Montana

  • Chrysalis Therapeutic Boarding School

  • Cinemark

  • Coldsnap Towers, LLC*

  • Columbia Falls School District 6

  • Comfort Systems USA Temp Right Service

  • Crevier’s Academy of Cosmetology Arts*

  • Crowley Fleck Law Firm*

  • Dick Anderson Construction*

  • Discount Tire

  • Easterseals-Goodwill

  • Enhabit Home Health and Hospice

  • Enterprise Mobility

  • Express Employment Professionals

  • 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 Lodges

  • Hammerquist Casalegno

  • Harlow’s School Bus Services, Inc.

  • Huckleberry Patch

  • IBEW Local 768

  • Ice Chest Express

  • Immanuel Living

  • Installation Delivery & Storage LCC

  • Intermountain Truck Rebuiliders*

  • Job Corps

  • Kalispell Park & Recreation / Woodland Waterpark

  • Laborers Union local 1686

  • Landscape Pros of Montana

  • LC Staffing

  • Logan Health

  • 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*

  • Mountain Meadow Herbs

  • Nomad GCS

  • Park Side Credit Union

  • Picture Montana*

  • Professional Transportation, Inc.

  • Prosperity Training Center - Butte

  • RDJ Brothers, Inc

  • Red Eagle Aviation*

  • Rental Equipment Investment Corporation (REIC)

  • Schellinger Construction

  • Sletten Construction

  • SmartLam

  • Smith Memorial Childcare

  • Skysquatch Productions*

  • Springs at Whitefish

  • Stampede Packing Company

  • Stockman Bank

  • Studio Beauty School Missoula*

  • Town Pump, Inc.

  • TrailWest Bank

  • Unifi Aviation

  • Vero Fiber

  • 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/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.

  1. 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