Throughout the morning at the Dignity Health Convention Center, thousands of job seekers filtered through the Kern Job Fest, hoping Wednesday would be their big break, or at least the start of it.
Last week, the Federal government announced a loss of 92,000 jobs nationally in its monthly job report, and while the data locally won’t be available for several more days, it doesn’t exactly inspire a ton of confidence in local job seekers.
“It’s a lot of sending out applications and not really hearing too much back,” said Ana Von Kennedy as she waited to get in…