RUSSELLVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INSPIRE RIVER VALLEY CONNECTION TO CAREERS 2024-2025 PROGRAM
Speakers & presentations
Please make your request a minimum of two weeks in advance. Most business people cannot be available for a whole day. You may want to consider video-taping a presentation if it needs to be shown to multiple classes throughout the day. In your request, please include the topics you want discussed, the approximate number of students, grade level of students, date and time of the presentation.
Volunteers for mock interviews
Please make your request a minimum of two weeks in advance. Most business people can be available for a couple of hours, but not for a whole day. In your request, please include information about student career interests, the approximate number of students, grade level of students, date and time of the event.
Tours
Requests for student tours of a plant or a business, must be made at least four weeks in advance. Tours will require additional school personnel to chaperone small groups.
Events
Skilled Trade Expo- Be Pro Be Proud Draft Day
Connecting students to nuclear- Arkansas Nuclear One
Connecting students to manufacturing- Mars Petcare
Partners
Manufacturing:
Bridgestone Firestone
Conagra
Grandeur Fasteners
Green Bay Packaging
Hackney-Ladish
International Paper
JBT
J.W. Aluminum
Mahle
Phoenix Innovations
Potlatch-Deltic
Reed Precision Manufacturing
Rockline
Taber Extrusions
TOLM Group
Twin River Foods
Tyson
Wayne-Sanderson Farms
Health related:
Friendship Community Care
Legacy Heights Nursing/Rehab
Millard Henry Clinic
Mitchell Nursing Home
Pinnacle In-home Care
Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center
Other:
Americold: cold storage
AR/OK Carpenters & Millwrights: construction trades
Arkansas Nuclear One: Engineering, security, admin
Blackstone Construction: road construction
Brightspeed: Utilities
Centennial Bank
Chambers Bank
City Corp: Utilities
City of Russellville: Government, Fire, Police
Community Service, Inc.: Nonprofit
Crafton Tull: Engineering
Entergy: Utilities
Guru Pro Services: Computer Retail or Service
Koontz Electric: Electrical
Pope County: Government, Police, Library
Redpointe Group: internet technology, programming
Top Notch Heating and Air
