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Job Shadow Experience Inspires Students

>> This year’s Groundhog Day failed to forecast a definite timeline for winter, but it didn’t fail to inspire two students with a feel for the workplace. Tri-County EMC participated in National Groundhog Job Shadow Day on Feb. 2. Customer Service Representatives Tonja Andrews and Beverly Pounds exposed Putnam County High School Senior Jermonica Swain to different aspects of their professions while First-Class Line Technician /Service Lineman Bill Williams mentored his daughter Ashley, a Jasper County High School senior.
Swain says, “I learned it’s important to have a good attitude. The experience let me work with a lot of different people.”

 “The opportunity to shadow a Tri-County lineman helped me realize what an 8 to 5 job is really like,” states Ashley Williams. “Line work appears to be an adventurous and exciting job to those who don’t have to work in extreme conditions to get the job done.”  <<