Job Skills and Minority Youth - New Program Directions

Informationen zum Autor Barton J. Hirsch is Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University, Illinois. He has written two previous books on youth programs, A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth and After-School Centers and Youth Development: Case Studies of Success and Failure (with Nancy L. Deutsch and David L. DuBois), which both received the Social Policy Award for Best Authored Book from the Society for Research on Adolescence. Klappentext This book evaluates new programs that aim to reduce minority youth unemployment by improving high school students' marketable job skills. Zusammenfassung This book uses a rigorous methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of recent initiatives that aim to improve minority high school students' marketable job skills. Focusing on effective design and implementation! it presents extensive case study material from programs offering apprenticeship-like experiences and mock interviews administered by human resource professionals. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Barton J. Hirsch, Barton J. (Northwestern University Hirsch, Hirsch Barton J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781107427709
• ISBN: 978-1-107-42770-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, Poverty & unemployment, Labour / income economics, Sociology: work & labour, Age groups: adolescents, Sociology: work and labour, Poverty and precarity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Employment & Unemployment