DND looking to hire dozens of civilians as it hosts job fair

The Department of Defence hosted a job fair here at the Cultural Centre in downtown Fredericton with a line so long that at one point it went right out the door. There were dozens of eager applicants in attendance checking out positions for a variety of different jobs and careers. The civilian jobs the department were looking to hire included teachers, nurses, doctors, mechanics, engineers, firefighters and trades workers. Many who came left optimistic. It's good. I feel like there's a lot of good opportunities here. There's a lot of people. It seems really nice. It's a pretty good setup, yeah. I'm mostly looking for IT jobs. So I gave my resume, talked to a few people. Apparently I'm in high demand, so I'm glad about that. So I've seen a lot of opportunities that have to do with administration, but dives into communications. So I intend to follow up on those ones. What positions did you drop resumes out for? For the teaching, for the cook, for the skilled area and for the nursing. It went pretty good because you have to love what you do. And if you don't love it, it don't make sense because you have to consider that the job that you're going to do is going to bring joy to others. The Department of National Defence wouldn't provide an interview on the job fair nor were they able to say how many positions they were hiring for. But a spokesperson did state that the hiring comes during a time when the Defense Department is in a period of growth. The hiring follows the announcement earlier this spring of more than a billion dollars in federal funding to upgrade and expand Base Gagetown, and that period of building and expansion is expected to continue over the next decade.