“Vocational salience allows all human beings to find purpose, social involvement, aspiration, life achievement, monetary reward, and the opportunity to offer themselves to the world as a change agent.”
“We envision our students graduating with work experience that prepares them to get paid internships, prior learning credits, and to launch careers at JFK Airport.”
The city will offer a work-readiness training program this summer open to undocumented youth, City Limits has learned—answering calls from advocates and lawmakers who’ve been pushing for an alternative to the popular Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), for which undocumented students aren’t eligible.
Black, Hispanic and Asian children in the city are around three times more likely to have lost a parent or caregiver compared to their white peers, a new analysis reveals.
Reducing racial disparities within the practice of medicine will take work by elementary-school teachers, high-school counselors, college programs, med schools and mentor physicians. But the work starts with letting Black and Latino kids know they have the right to dream.
From school safety to marine engineering, the city is offering tests for new workers and current employees looking to move up.
An advocacy group says the Summer Youth Employment Program, a valuable but limited tool, ought to be improved and expanded to increase the connection between what city kids study in the classroom and their entry into the job market.
A recent survey asked workers to rank the most and least meaningful jobs. But this video report finds that meaning is in the eye of the beholder. Breaking into meaningful work, says one career veteran, is about meeting people.
How do you explain getting fired? How do you talk about a health issue that affected your work? What do you do if someone has discriminated against you? City Limits job seekers’ resource, Worksite, gets frank advice from a veteran career counselor on navigating tricky interview topics.
Mayor de Blasio has said the city’s college system is key to reducing income inequality. But experts say CUNY needs better coordination to connect young New Yorkers to solid careers.
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