Versión en español Fabiola Fernandez started her career 18 years ago as a cleaning technician on the night crew. She was promoted to day porter, then promoted again to cleaning supervisor of the San Diego, California, airport. Seven years ago, she joined Servicon as a...
“Traduccion en Espanol abajo” When Liz Griffin graduated from college, she was eager to put her art history degree to work. She landed a job with a premier auction house and, within a year, was promoted to work in its fine arts department. Her excitement was...
A Career Woman Making a Difference After volunteering at a hospital in California when she was 16, Susan Matt knew she wanted to work in healthcare. Her first paid job was as an environmental services (EVS) technician at a major medical center, a career choice she has...
Maria Castanon had worked for a commercial cleaner at one of the largest aerospace complexes in Dallas, Texas, for 14 years. She held various positions, including as a frontline custodial technician, utility worker, restroom cleaner, and team lead. A little over two...
In 2016, Servicon's Aerospace Portfolio Manager Brandy Owens was looking to change her life. "I was living in Chicago, had just gotten divorced, and the family business I worked for had been bought out by a larger corporation that changed the dynamics," she says. "I...
Guadalupe Aguilar joined Servicon in 2017 as a part-time custodial technician while she was in college. She graduated in 2020 and started working full-time in the commercial cleaning services sector, and in 2021, she moved to the healthcare sector as a hospital...
Mauricio Galvan was working for a dry cleaner. He was bored, wasn't learning anything, and wanted a change. His parents, who had started working for Servicon four years earlier, suggested he apply for a position at Servicon. He did and got the job. It was September...
Nadine Clark started working at 14. By the time she reached her 40s, she had enough points in the former New York system to retire. "'Retire? Retiring is for old people, not me; 'I am too young to retire,'" she recalls thinking. So she didn't. Instead, she put her...
When you’ve been in the cleaning industry for four decades, you are bound to have experienced change. Yet, in the case of Ricardo Garcia, Servicon account supervisor, it’s what has stayed the same that is most impressive. For 40 years Ricardo has worked at a major...
Tamila Bergal came to the United States from Ukraine with an engineering degree. When she was looking for work, someone mentioned she should consider accounting since she possessed math and other related skills. Thinking it was a good idea, she went to school and...
Liz Sanders worked as an assistant director of a childcare network and pre-K teacher for more than 20 years. Yet it wasn’t until four years ago, when she started working as a custodial technician for Servicon, that she felt she had found her true calling. "Everyone in...
Jill Reynolds believes with hard work comes growth opportunities. "I guess it is in part based on how I grew up with a single dad for a while and a sister," she says. "Both taught me if you work hard and care about whatever job you do, it will pay off. And as a woman,...
For Hattie Tatem, Servicon team lead at an aerospace facility in Virginia, joining the company was life changing. In 2017, Hattie left her job at a nursing home to open a travel business. Her husband retired in 2019 to open a broker business. Both he and Hattie became...
From a young age, Juan Garcia knew he liked hospitals. "As a kid, I was sick and in hospitals a lot," he says. "They never had the effect on me they do on other people. I didn’t feel sad or sick. I liked the idea of making people feel good and knew I could be of help...
Not everyone who has a 2-1/2 to 3-hour one-way commute that starts at 3 a.m. and includes two buses and a train ride is happy to go to work every day. But not everyone is Maria Santana, an environmental services (EVS) technician who works at a leading Los Angeles...
Juanita Garcia believes finding a career she loves was partially due to luck. She worked at a supermarket but was looking for a career change when she met a Servicon supervisor, who said Servicon was hiring. She took a cleaning test, passed it, and one week later...
When the cleaning company Zoila Salguero worked for cleaning courtrooms lost the contract, she needed another job. Several of her peers who already worked for Servicon said they like the company and that management treats them well. They recommended she apply, so she...
When the contract with the cleaning company wasn’t renewed at the facility where environmental services (EVS) technician Ana Rodriguez worked, they offered her a position at another facility. The site was far from her home in LA, a city famous for its traffic, and the...
Servicon held a special event to honor 36 field employees who have been with the company for 20+ years. The luncheon included congratulatory remarks; an awards presentation; and personalized rewards, exclusive presents, and gift cards for honorees.