Job Skills and Minority Youth : New Program Directions (Hardcover)

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.