Interested in a job as a life guard in Yountville? How about working with animals and wild rides at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo? Or maybe a career with an assisted living residence such as Aegis Assisted Living in Napa?

Those were just a few of the opportunities from 97 employers Wednesday at the 2007 Spring Job Fair at Napa Valley College.

There was no shortage of students chatting with the exhibitors, while filling their free white plastic tote bags with brochures and dropping off resumes and applications.

“So far it has been great. It seems like there are a lot of people here today,” said Allie O’Shaughnessy, a Napa Valley College student.

O’Shaughnessy volunteered to hand out pamphlets and answer questions as visitors entered the college gymnasium for the fair.

“I’ve seen a lot of students out here today,” said O’Shaughnessy, 20, adding the fair offered a lot that was interesting to students.

Kim Beiner, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom’s human resources manager, gave out brochures on part-time employment opportunities.

She directed the full-time job seekers to the amusement park’s Web site to see what opportunities are available.

About midway through the four-hour-long job fair, Beiner estimated she had talked with at least 100 job seekers.

Also on hand was Yountville’s Lisa Tyler, community services and facilities supervisor, who was hiring for the town’s aquatics and summer camp programs.

“We’ve had a lot of people stop by and then come back with their completed job applications,” Tyler said.

The applicants Tyler is eyeing include students looking for summer employment — those who like working outdoors and with children.

Tyler said her Yountville agency has been coming to the college’s job fair for as long as its been going on.

“We do this job fair because it is local,” Tyler said. Most of their employees come from between American Canyon and St. Helena.

Napa Valley College student Dominique Earle put the final touches on her job application with Aegis Assisted Living in Napa.

“I like the job fair. It’s easier than running around town. There are a lot of choices here,” Earle said.

Aegis’ Colleen Kabeary, resident services director said, “This is a fabulous job fair,” estimating she had given out about 100 job applications.

“We’ve been receiving quite a few resumes that people have dropped off,” she added. “Something like this is great for us. Aegis is not known by a lot of people. So today lets us tell people who we are and what we do.”

And it doesn’t hurt that the table, like most others at the fair, was filled with free goodies such as candy, pens and note pads.

Trying to entice creative students to continue their education was the task of Trudy Noren, college representative for the four-campus Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.

Noren’s target applicants are students who are completing their general education courses, and are interested in transferring into the school’s one-year program.

“About 90 percent of our graduates have jobs within three months,” she said.

 “We have very high quality internship programs, which quite often offer students full-time jobs after completing their internships.”