Job skills and minority youth : new program directions /

Minority youth unemployment is an enduring economic and social concern. This book evaluates two new initiatives for minority high school students that seek to cultivate marketable job skills. The first is an after-school program that provides experiences similar to apprenticeships, and the second em...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hirsch, Barton Jay, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Minority youth > Employment.
Vocational qualifications.
Professional Competence
Jeunesse issue des minorités > Travail.
Qualifications professionnelles.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Minority youth > Employment
Vocational qualifications
Jugendlicher Arbeitnehmer
Personalauswahl
Qualifikation
Berufsbildungspolitik
Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Wirkungsanalyse
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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: Northwestern mock job interview.

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