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...
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...
Gabriel Uribe is no stranger to responsibility. When he was 19, his father died unexpectedly, leaving him to help support his mother, a brother, and a sister. "I had to mature quickly when my father passed," he recalls. "I had to buckle down and try to figure out what...
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...
Nora Revolorio joined Servicon as a cleaning technician in 2018 at the suggestion of a friend who worked for—and recommended—the company. She liked her job, her supervisor, and her coworkers. But she couldn’t use the construction skills she had learned while helping...
Elizabeth Fernandez wears a necklace that reads, "She believed she could, so she did." It's her personal mantra—but it wasn't always. "Before I began working at Servicon, I was in a bad situation," Elizabeth confesses. "I was unemployed, pregnant, and in an unhealthy...
When Michelle Luna agreed to do a favor for a colleague, she didn't realize she was making a career move she would never regret. "One day, my friend Mark, who I worked with in the past, called and asked me if I could work part-time for Servicon overseeing a client's...
When Servicon IT Director, Paul Walters, was 18, he was a carpenter who loved motorcycles. However, when he broke his back in a bad racing accident that paralyzed him and put him in a wheelchair, he knew he had to change careers. Seven years later, Paul joined...
When Wendy Torres graduated from high school, she knew she wanted to help people. So she went into nursing. When she graduated and couldn't secure a nursing job but needed to pay her bills, someone suggested she work at Servicon. She applied and was hired as a...
In 1985, a young Edwin Stephenson needed a job. His friend suggested he come to work at Servicon. Stephenson had no clue what commercial cleaners do, so he went with his friend one night to watch him work. The next day, Stephenson applied and got the job. His plan was...
Luis Reyes was 25, had just gotten married, and was tired of working in retail. His sister suggested he apply for a position at Servicon, where she worked. So, he did and was hired as an area manager for one of the largest aerospace facilities in Newport Beach, CA, at...