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Hoping to fill thousands of vacant positions, employers are recruiting in person

There are thousands of job vacancies to be filled on the Central and South Coasts
Caroline Feraday
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KCLU
There are thousands of job vacancies to be filled on the Central and South Coasts

The pandemic has created thousands of job vacancies on the Central and South Coast, with employers scrambling to fill them.

An event in the Conejo Valley on Wednesday aimed to match up some vacant roles with prospective candidates.

From hospitality to healthcare there are multiple job vacancies per company, at this job fair in Thousand Oaks.

Miguel Zavala, a recruiter with UCLA Health, is one of those here seeking to attract new employees.

"The candidates have a lot of options, there's a lot of good hospitals in California and they have choices," he told KCLU. "We are actively recruiting and we need good people."

Lisa is here to see what’s on offer. But with no urgency to their search.

"We are looking for stuff that we want to do instead of stuff we have to do, now," said Lisa. "Seriously, when you get older, you don't want to work in a cruddy environment."

Caroline joined KCLU in October 2020. She's won LA Press Club's Southern California Audio Journalist of the Year Award four times, in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026.

Since joining the station she's also been awarded with 12 Golden Mikes, 9 Los Angeles Press Club Journalism Awards, 4 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards and five Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in Writing, Diversity, Use of Sound & more.

Caroline started her broadcasting career in the UK, in both radio and television for BBC News, London's number one station 95.8 Capital FM, and Sky News — and was awarded by Prince Philip for her services to radio and journalism in 2007.

She has lived in California for 13 years and is a duel American and British citizen...and a very proud mom to her daughter, Elsie.