{"id":59743,"date":"2015-01-17T08:24:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T13:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=59743"},"modified":"2015-01-19T08:30:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:30:15","slug":"lview-ag-business-students-get-interview-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/01\/17\/lview-ag-business-students-get-interview-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"L’view students get interview experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/submitted information<\/i><\/p>\n

On Thursday, Lincolnview FFA Ag Business students took advantage of Van Wert County Economic Development initiative Rural by Choice.\u00a0Last month, the RBC team visited Lincolnview and Crestview junior high\/middle school students to introduce the question of \u201cwhy not here?\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Lincolnview Ag Business student is interviewed by Rural By Choice volunteer Clair Harting III. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Rural By Choice team set out to engage local students with concepts of staying in Van Wert after high school or returning to Van Wert County after college.\u00a0The team also broached the idea of resume building, interviewing, and other ways the local community could get involved in the discussion with county young people about making Van Wert a competitive consideration in their future plans.<\/p>\n

Krista Seibert, agricultural education instructor and FFA advisor at Lincolnview High School, contacted County Economic Development Director Sarah Smith, as she had a plan to rotate her 11 FFA\/ag business students through mock interviews after their completion of a three-week educational block on the interviewing process and executing sound interviews.\u00a0Seibert explained that she wanted to give the kids a more realistic experience from someone they weren\u2019t familiar with and someone who had experience with the process and in the field.<\/p>\n

Rural by Choice team members CW Harting III (Harting Farms in Convoy) and Gary Moser (Roanna Farms in Convoy) were both called in for the cause and the Lincolnview students rose to the occasion.<\/p>\n

Smith also had economic development consultant and author Mark Lautman in town from Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the 2015 County ED Kickoff later that afternoon and they had a chance to stop in at the school and see the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had the poise of a college kid,\u201d Lautman commented on one of the Lincolnview juniors on his completion of the process, \u201cI am really impressed with the Van Wert youth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harting and Moser both echoed Lautman\u2019s observation and it sends a positive message to local employers that the workforce is coming.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing kids excited about the process, having local business owners involved in their development and having\u00a0educators like Seibert (all) show that Van Wert County is making moves in the right direction to connect the necessary players to give our county a competitive edge toward growth,\u201d\u00a0added Smith.<\/p>\n

Those interested in participating in Rural by Choice, have ideas for the program, or would like the RBC team to present can contact the Van Wert County Economic Development Office at 419.238.6159.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/submitted information On Thursday, Lincolnview FFA Ag Business students took advantage of Van Wert County Economic Development initiative Rural by Choice.\u00a0Last month, the RBC team visited Lincolnview and Crestview junior high\/middle school students to introduce the question of \u201cwhy not here?\u201d The Rural By Choice team set out to engage local students with concepts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 06:25:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}