Hundreds of job seekers lined up in the pouring rain Monday morning as a three-day T-Mobile job fair got under way at the Callaway Conference Center of West Georgia Technical College.

“It’s almost overwhelming to see this many people come out in this kind of weather,” jobseeker Starlin Beasley said. “I was thinking that more people would have just stayed home because of the rain. It just goes to show how tough things are in the job market lately.”

T-Mobile will hire up to 111 people for its National Return Center at 210 Wiley Road. Luis Sample, manager of human resources, said the company hopes to make its first job offers by the end of this week.

“Our goal is to have our first group of new hires working by March 30. We’d like to go ahead and thank everyone for toughing it out and coming here and waiting in the rain. It says a lot about everyone’s character.”

Applications will be taken through 8 p.m. Monday. Tuesday’s schedule will run from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., while Wednesday will go from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.

For more, see Tuesday’s LaGrange Daily News.