With excited students, attentive employees, and more than willing employers, Cerritos College held its biannual job fair this Tuesday afternoon.

Many police departments not only attended the job fair, but were also the main focus of this event.

Rick Moore, an officer and representative for Los Alamitos Police Department, participated with a very enthusiastic attitude.

“It’s the first time our department has attended such an event here at Cerritos. I think it’s great that Cerritos offers such wonderful opportunities to inform students of the careers and jobs that one can have. I was very excited to be a part of this,” he said.

Moore provided students with information regarding careers in law enforcement.
He explained that not many people are familiar with the standards, let alone the process such a career requires. Therefore, people tend to think they have to be perfect.

“You don’t have to be perfect in any aspect,” he explained, “as long as you are dedicated and put in as much effort as you possibly can, you will definitely benefit from our programs.”

Benefits such as job stability, retirement funds, and medical pay are all provided by law enforcement, Moore stated.

“Plus it’s fun. There’s not many jobs you can go to and come back saying you had fun,” he added.

 The Signal Hill Police Department also contributed to the Cerritos job fair.

Detective Raul Ramirez was surprised to see the effective outcome it had.

He shared, “We were given the opportunity to expose what we’re about and what we do. I was left astounded to see how many people truly had an interest. We even ran out of applications.”

As he explained the Explorers program, undecided major Maria Torres said she took in a lot of good and interesting information.

“I’m 17 and it seems like nobody wants to hire me,” she said, “But this job fair gave me numerous career opportunities like the Explorers program. Not only will I be giving my service to the community, but also the police department will be training and ‘grooming’ me. So if I decide to apply for a law enforcement career, they will take me into consideration first ’cause of the career insight I already obtained. I think that‘s a real big benefit.”

Edilene Munoz, criminal law major, took a great deal of interest in the information that Mac Lim, representative of Los Cerritos Center, provided.

“He (Lim) explained to me how taking a position in mall security or customer service gives you an advantage for future law enforcement opportunities,” she shared.

“You get to learn some of the radio codes. So when you transfer into a police department, you won’t be all confused about what they are talking about.” 

Along with law enforcement, Woodworking and Manufacturing Technologies also received a lot of attention.