Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Program Design
Recruitment
Students will be recruited using various social media tools, school blasts, community groups and through faith-based organizations. In partnership with Duval County Public Schools, flyers, announcements and special invitations will be made available to all area students. Employ Florida website will be used to register candidates where they will receive an interview time with a WORKSource representative. Once interviewed, participants will then be given a letter with the name of the company they have been selected to meet.
Pre-Employment Training
Pre-Employment Training will be administered by the City of Jacksonville, community and business volunteers. The eight-hour training will include customer service, business 101, professional image, ethics, diversity and financial awareness.
Benefits to Business
The businesses, governmental agencies and non-profits that hire these young people will also benefit from the experience. Your Business and Your Community benefits include: Investing in a potential future applicant pool Alleviating the work load while full-time staff take vacation Allowing extra work to be completed; get caught up or get ahead on projects Providing an opportunity to give YOUR staff experience managing others Gaining pre-screened candidates Being featured as a sponsor/partner of the COJ.net website Participating in the Kick-off News Conference Recognized as a Summer Jobs Employer Participating in the social media campaign Appearing on the citys discount page Creating a present-day and future customer base Attracting other potential media exposure Minimizing cost because summer employees are paid minimum wage ($7.79 hour)
Most of all, by hiring young people for the summer, employers are helping to keep our youth productive, off the streets and out of trouble.