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08/17/09 13:02 Filed in: Foundation in the News
Union-Tribune Editorial
Matching youths and employers
2:00 a.m. August 15, 2009
NORTH COUNTY — An effort to match high school and college students' desires for unpaid internships with interested companies in the inland North County is being launched by the San Diego North Education Foundation, allied with the San Diego North Chamber of Commerce.
Matching youths and employers
2:00 a.m. August 15, 2009
NORTH COUNTY — An effort to match high school and college students' desires for unpaid internships with interested companies in the inland North County is being launched by the San Diego North Education Foundation, allied with the San Diego North Chamber of Commerce.
Union-Tribune Editorial
Matching youths and employers
2:00 a.m. August 15, 2009
NORTH COUNTY — An effort to match high school and college students' desires for unpaid internships with interested companies in the inland North County is being launched by the San Diego North Education Foundation, allied with the San Diego North Chamber of Commerce.
Training for the first batch of 20 interns in a series of three-month rotations begins in two weeks. They first will be coached in job interviewing, resume writing and other skills. Each intern will be expected to complete an approved project, an exercise that ensures they will do more than just menial tasks or job shadowing.
The matchmaking program combined with heavy mentoring is the brainchild of Alicia Gwynn and Debra Rosen. Gwynn is an ordained minister and motivator/mentor to many disadvantaged youths as well as proud wife and mother to two prominent sports figures. Rosen is the energetic new chief executive of the 1,000-member inland chamber.
Despite all the electronic social-networking media, Gwynn believes today's youths are too sheltered and deprived of social skills. They don't know what they want to do or how to go about it. Rosen agrees. She sees youths who don't have a clue as to what is expected of them in the adult world.
Both believe that the gap works both ways, that employers do not know how to approach or motivate the generation coming of age.
So that's another goal of a pilot program coming online. Information is available at sdnef.org or (858) 487-1767.
The effort is low budget — $30,000 for the first year — but has the interest of prominent educational institutions and employers.
Our region has many technical and even skilled vocational jobs that require career and educational planning early on. Yet education and skill training are not enough. Today's youths must learn the attitudes, behavior, communication and discipline expected in the workplace.
That, and the forming of youth/potential employer relationships, is the value of this budding matchmaking effort. It bears watching and careful incubating.
Union-Tribune
Matching youths and employers
2:00 a.m. August 15, 2009
NORTH COUNTY — An effort to match high school and college students' desires for unpaid internships with interested companies in the inland North County is being launched by the San Diego North Education Foundation, allied with the San Diego North Chamber of Commerce.
Training for the first batch of 20 interns in a series of three-month rotations begins in two weeks. They first will be coached in job interviewing, resume writing and other skills. Each intern will be expected to complete an approved project, an exercise that ensures they will do more than just menial tasks or job shadowing.
The matchmaking program combined with heavy mentoring is the brainchild of Alicia Gwynn and Debra Rosen. Gwynn is an ordained minister and motivator/mentor to many disadvantaged youths as well as proud wife and mother to two prominent sports figures. Rosen is the energetic new chief executive of the 1,000-member inland chamber.
Despite all the electronic social-networking media, Gwynn believes today's youths are too sheltered and deprived of social skills. They don't know what they want to do or how to go about it. Rosen agrees. She sees youths who don't have a clue as to what is expected of them in the adult world.
Both believe that the gap works both ways, that employers do not know how to approach or motivate the generation coming of age.
So that's another goal of a pilot program coming online. Information is available at sdnef.org or (858) 487-1767.
The effort is low budget — $30,000 for the first year — but has the interest of prominent educational institutions and employers.
Our region has many technical and even skilled vocational jobs that require career and educational planning early on. Yet education and skill training are not enough. Today's youths must learn the attitudes, behavior, communication and discipline expected in the workplace.
That, and the forming of youth/potential employer relationships, is the value of this budding matchmaking effort. It bears watching and careful incubating.
Union-Tribune