OC Chamber Job Fair returns April 4 to conv. center

Ocean City has to work in summer and for that to happen plenty of people need to be hired into Ocean City establishments.

When the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce’s Job Fair debuted in 1985, the ideas were fairly simple: hiring people to staff restaurants, bars and the hotels that dominated the scene at that time.

But in the past 30 years the game has changed. A small yet significant portion of the jobs are professional, attendance has grown tenfold from the first year’s 400-600 attendees, organizers said and the fair has added educational and training services to the menu.

“The neat thing about this event in the 8 years I’ve been here … I’ve seen it evolve from just the summer jobs into the go-to place for employers for not just seasonal but year-round employment as well,” chamber Executive Director Melanie Pursel said.

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