Ferguson Corporation Celebrates Partnership Between CBI Tri Star and Ferguson

 The following article appeared in the Ferguson Corporate Communications Newsletter:

Educating and Hiring Tomorrow's Workforce
Corporate Communications
8/21/2017

Left to right: Tim Buschur, Director of Tri Star Career Compact; Claire Giesige, Recipient of Outstanding Partner in Education; Kevin Workman; Celina HR Manager, Recipient of Outstanding Partner in Education Award.

What does an outstanding partner in education look like?
Just ask any associate at the Celina, OH Distribution Center (2911), as the location was recently honored by Tri Star Career Compact for its partnership and commitment to educating and hiring tomorrow's workforce.

The center participates in the school's Career Based Intervention program, designed as a work-study program to encourage students to explore various career paths, both in the classroom and in the field. The work experience component offers students the ability to attend school for half a day and work the other half.

"We work with the students to help teach job skills, and from time to time we meet with the kids to practice their interviewing skills and answer their questions about the business," explained Kevin Workman, Celina's HR Manager. "We have hired a few students; in fact one is working part time in our UPS processing area now and will move to full time when he graduates."

In addition to on-the-job training, CBI introduces students to many career themes and topics, some of which include:

• Exploring careers and developing a career path
• Entrepreneurship
• Workplace ethics
• Consumer rights and responsibilities
• Interpersonal relationships at work
• Teamwork and leadership
• Money management
• Financial security

"CBI is important to the success of our workforce and future. Selfishly, we need employable people in our candidate pool, but more importantly, kids need to obtain life skills and job skills by the time they graduate from high school," Kevin added. "We are proud to be a part of this program and honored that we were recognized for our contribution."

More than a dozen students from Celina and St. Mary's CBI classes have been employed by Ferguson. The following photos are just a few former CBI students employed by Ferguson:

Junior Meijia

Josh Holbrook

Marshell Carter