Barton J. Hirsch

Job Skills and Minority Youth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book evaluates new programs that aim to reduce minority youth unemployment by improving high school students' marketable job skills.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9781107427709
• ISBN-10: 1107427703
• Artikelnr.: 44709099

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.