Brownsville native Gilbert Garcia already has a job working for a call center, but he’s hoping to leverage his college education this year.
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“There’s a lot of people that are hiring and there’s a lot of applicants inside,” Garcia said about employers from SpaceX to Rio Grande LNG, Bechtel Construction, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, the city of Brownsville, and several law enforcement agencies from state to local authorities.
That’s why Garcia was among the hundreds of hopeful job seekers inside the Brownsville Events Center on Thursday morning — he even skipped breakfast to get there early — but craft coffee was provided.
Garcia holds a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from the University of Texas at the Rio Grande Valley and aspires to work at the intersection of sports medicine and business.
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Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza
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Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza is a versatile multimedia news reporter who lives and works along the Texas-Mexico border in Hidalgo County. Mosbrucker-Garza is a news reporter for the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. During her career she's worked for the McAllen Monitor, San Antonio Business Journal, The Advocate Newspaper in Louisiana, Phoenix New Times, and public media outlets in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
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