A record-breaking variety of Santa Barbara County excessive schoolers have been admitted to the Paid Job Readiness Coaching and Internship Program at Companions in Training this spring.
This system empowers college students to tackle the world forward by hands-on profession exploration and paid work expertise, and is barely potential with the assist of native employers and neighborhood volunteers.
Volunteers from the neighborhood function profession coaches who meet with the scholars just about on a weekly foundation, protecting matters from monetary planning and resume teaching, to steerage on the large life choices they are going to be making after graduating highschool. College students are paid for his or her time, addressing the necessity to put money into themselves professionally and likewise earn a paycheck on the identical time.
The 73 college students who’ve accomplished their eight weeks of coaching this spring are wanting to be matched with an area employer for a paid summer time internship. College students earn minimal wage for his or her internship hours, and employers serving as intern hosts pay solely a portion of the wages – a flat payment of $800.
Companions makes this course of simple for employers by caring for the paperwork and facilitation. On this manner, college students achieve the expertise they want, whereas companies achieve 80 hours of workers assist at a reduction.
College students come to this system with a variety of profession pursuits and desires. Companions workers work to match college students’ abilities and pursuits with significant roles.
Graduates of this system have labored as greeters at museums, apprentices in building and mission administration, assistants on software program or engineering packages, entrance workplace workers at medical clinics and dental places of work, and extra.
A number of the prime industries of curiosity for Santa Maria college students are at the moment well being sciences and medical expertise, finance and enterprise, and agriculture and pure assets.
All pupil contributors obtain monetary literacy displays throughout their workshops the place they discover ways to construct a credit score rating, perceive 401k and IRA financial savings, what to search for when financing their first automobile, and so they even observe making a funds!
Contributed, Luis Medina
Russ Garrison, president of Bethel Engineering, the primary Santa Maria firm to ever rent a pupil intern by this program, tells us the wonderful expertise he had with the highschool pupil and Companions in Training Job Readiness coaching program graduate:
“[Neev] has been immediate and dependable. He appears to be an increasing number of assured interacting with engineering professionals and asks good questions. We’d extremely suggest participation on this program for the advantage of our future trade professionals and the expertise it affords.”
Has your corporation ever thought-about how a lot assist a educated pupil intern can give you? Do you see an absence of native college students making use of for jobs in your trade for the reason that pandemic?
Let’s present college students the alternatives out there to them proper right here in Santa Maria and gas our native financial system. Thanks to all of the Santa Maria companies who’ve employed interns to date:
● Santa Barbara County Training Workplace – Santa Maria Division of Particular Training
● Metropolis of Santa Maria, Parks & Recreation
● Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum
● Metropolis of Santa Maria, Public Library
● Searchlight Properties
● R.W. Scott Development
It is a nice technique to give again and keep away from the effort of paperwork and recruitment. How do you be certain that to search out the proper pupil? Simply inform Companions you’re prepared to rent a pupil, and they’re going to prepare them, case handle, and handle all of the hiring paperwork.
The neighborhood of Santa Maria has embraced the scholars of this program and opened up connections for them that may have in any other case been unimaginable because of the pandemic.
Construct your workforce from the bottom up right now and attain out to [email protected] to mentor and achieve the workers assist of our subsequent era of trade leaders.
This commentary was written by the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce and Companions in Training.
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