GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Returning for the fifth year on Thursday, the Greenville Convention Center hosted the Better Skills, Better Jobs Career Fair, helping workforce development in Eastern Carolina.

“It’s kind of difficult trying to find a job,” recent high school graduate Jasiah Dixon says. “It definitely can be. There are a lot of different careers.”

According to the Associated Press, the unemployment rate for degree holders ages 22 to 27 has reached its highest level in a dozen years, excluding the COVID-19 pandemic.

Several recent graduates at the convention center say they’ve experienced this difficulty firsthand.

“It has been hard waiting and being patient. That’s probably been the hardest part,” college graduate Matthew Cox says. “You can definitely feel the tension among my

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