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 Mark your calendars and tell anyone you know who is currently job hunting: Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) is hosting a Job Fair on Wednesday, Feb. 8.
More than 30 representatives from a broad list of businesses at MSP will be there to learn all about your interests and experience.
Opportunities include crew scheduler, flight attendant, cleaners, customer service ambassador, ramp agents, bartender, cook, barista, quick service manager, inventory specialist and warehouse associate -- which covers only some of the available positions.
Baggage-handling positions are also available. Airport employers offer competitive pay, and many provide benefits.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their resume and two forms of government-issued ID, as those will be necessary for on-the-spot hiring.
View some of the current open positions on this job board.
For a better idea of what it's like to work at MSP, view this video. (Run time: 51 seconds)
What: MSP Airport Job Fair
When: Wednesday, Feb. 8, noon to 4:00 p.m.
Where: Terminal 1, Silver Parking Ramp, ground level
Transportation and Directions
Public transportation is a convenient way to get to the event.
Attendees can take either the Metro Blue Line or the Metro Transit Route 54 bus to Terminal 1 at MSP. The event is taking place in the building just through the doors nearest the bus stop.
From the Blue Line station, take the escalators up to Level T (Tram) and follow the signs to Silver Parking.
Drive and park: Drive to Terminal 1 and park in the Silver Ramp. Take the escalator or elevators to Level 1, where you will find the Job Fair in the lobby. Parking will not be validated.
The first Workforce English students at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to graduate from the program since before the COVID-19 pandemic were honored at the Metropolitan Airports Commission's (MAC) board meeting on Jan 17.
The 14 graduates of the 14-week course are following cohorts of other airport employees who have completed the course in recent years.
The Workforce English program at the MAC began in 2018 and is coordinated through the Customer Service Action Council's Jobs Committee to help improve the customer experience for travelers. Many of the students – like Hirut – are recent immigrants to the United States who work in retail, restaurant or commercial jobs at MSP.
The focus is on the MSP Nice program, which is the airport's customer service training program, communication between coworkers and managers, and computer skills.
There is no cost to students in the program, which is taught through the St. Paul Public Schools Adult Basic Education Hubbs Center for Lifelong Learning. Volunteers from the Airport Foundation MSP serve as teaching assistants.
To date, five Workplace English sessions have been held at MSP. The average number of attendees is 12, although one class had 31 students.
The recently completed class was the first to offer hybrid sessions where students could attend class in person or virtually using iPads loaned by St. Paul Public Schools.
The next workplace English course is tentatively scheduled for this spring.
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 An architect’s unique take on several iconic Twin Cities buildings is now on display at MSP Airport’s (MSP) Terminal 1.
Jens Vange's "Hidden Dimensions in Urban Architecture" series of photographs are in the Colonnade Gallery toward the end of the refurbished Concourse G. The area, with its MSP Liminal display across the hall and a new rotunda, is evolving into one of MSP's most dynamic concourses.
Jens is an architect with Alliiance, one of the MAC's design consultants, and has been involved in several of MSP's architectural projects for more than 26 years, including its award-winning restrooms. He received a Kodak instamatic camera from his Danish father when he was in his early teens and has been taking photos ever since.
His focus has been capturing urban buildings through the reflections of their neighbors, including scenes of Minneapolis' Foshay and AT&T towers. Jens' father was a carpenter and mother an artist so he says it was a "foregone conclusion" that he would become an architect.
Stop by and see the exhibit the next time you're on Concourse G.
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