MARTA will staff a table as an employer at the Sandy Springs Connects! Career Expo on Sept. 29, part of a hiring push that has already reshaped one corner of the transit agency's workforce this year. Rough Draft Atlanta reported that MARTA is participating as an employer at the Sandy Springs Connects! Career Expo on Sept. 29, 2026 at City Springs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For job seekers in Sandy Springs and across metro Atlanta, it is a dated, in-person shot at a public-sector employer that has been visibly adding staff.
That addition is clearest in transit policing. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that MARTA increased sworn police officers from 230 in August 2025 to 268 and added field protective specialists as part of safety initiatives. That is a rise in sworn officers over roughly a year, plus a new category of field staff, and it gives the agency's expo appearance a backdrop: MARTA is not simply filling routine vacancies in isolation, it has been growing at least one visible piece of its headcount.
The expo booking and the officer growth are separate facts from separate sources, and neither confirms the other. The safety hiring reflects a security-specific initiative; nothing in the reporting says whether bus operators, rail technicians or other transit roles are expanding at a comparable pace. Showing up at a local career fair also does not, by itself, signal a broader hiring surge. Employers regularly staff expos to fill ongoing openings, not to announce expansion. What the two facts together support is narrower but still useful: a transit agency that has grown one part of its workforce this year will also be recruiting, in person, in Sandy Springs on Sept. 29.
For job seekers, the practical value is concrete and immediate. A confirmed date, time and venue means a chance to talk to MARTA recruiters directly rather than through a job board. What is not established is which positions MARTA will be recruiting for at the table, what those roles pay, or how many openings exist. The reporting names sworn officers and field protective specialists as areas of recent growth, but does not say whether those are the roles represented at City Springs on Sept. 29, or whether operator, maintenance or administrative positions will also be featured. Job seekers weighing whether the trip is worth their afternoon should treat the officer-count growth as a sign of an agency in an active-hiring posture, not as a guarantee of what will be on offer at the booth.
For Sandy Springs employers sharing the expo floor, MARTA's presence adds a large, name-recognized public employer to the roster, which tends to draw foot traffic that benefits every table. For workforce-development observers tracking public-sector hiring in metro Atlanta, the pairing of a safety-staffing increase with a recruitment appearance is a small but real data point: it suggests MARTA's hiring activity this year has extended beyond internal transfers into public-facing recruitment events.
The open question is scale. Nothing in the available reporting quantifies MARTA's net change in total employment, nor does it tie the Sept. 29 appearance to hiring targets or timelines. Job seekers attending the expo on Sept. 29 at City Springs between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. will get the clearest read on what MARTA is actually hiring for, and at what pay, directly from the agency's own recruiters, since that detail has not yet surfaced in public reporting.
