Job Skills and Minority Youth: New Program Directions

ISBN-13: 9781107427709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 204 str.

Barton J. Hirsch

Opis

This book evaluates new programs that aim to reduce minority youth unemployment by improving high school students' marketable job skills.

Recenzje

'This book provides an exceedingly rich exemplar of applied social science research, invaluable guidance for the administrators of youth development and job training programs, and inspiration for education and labor force policy-makers.' Jeylan Mortimer, University of Minnesota

Spis treści

1. Preparing youth for work; 2. Do youth in After School Matters have more marketable job skills?; 3. A comparison of the strongest and the weakest apprenticeships; 4. Which apprenticeship has the best model for scaling up?; 5. What human resource interviewers told us about youth employability; 6. A program for teaching youth how to do well in job interviews; 7. Guidelines for the future; Appendix 1: the impact of After School Matters on positive youth development, academics, and problem behavior; Appendix 2: the Northwestern mock job interview.