Mid-South job seekers pack first-ever St. Jude community career fair
Applicants are asked to check in at a St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital job fair held at the Holiday Inn-University of Memphis Oct. 22. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Some of the candidates at the St. Jude Career Fair Tuesday, Oct. 22, come from International Paper, which last week announced it was laying off hundreds of Memphis workers.
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Holiday Inn University of Memphis Workforce Development job fairAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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