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COMPANY SPONSORED JA JOB SHADOW EVENTS

Remember When You Were a Kid? What Did You Want to Be? Who Did You Want to Be? How Many Career Options Were You Aware Of?

If you love your job, why not share it with a kid? Open the door of opportunity to New York City and Long Island students - Get your employees involved as JA Job Shadow host volunteers!

The Junior Achievement Job Shadow Program is an annual high-impact youth career exploration program that helps middle and high school students to connect learning to earning.

Each school year, JA New York York's career exploration program kicks off a year-round series of corporate sponsored JA Job Shadow activity in NYC and Long Island.

JA Job Shadow experiences takes kids behind the scenes of NYC businesses where they learn about current and emerging career opportunities, and connect with professional businessmen and women like you.

Your insight, your knowledge, your experience and your passion for what you do can guide and inspire a student to a more positive direction in life.

When you sign-up your company to host JA Job Shadow event the benefits to the students, your employees and your company are numerous:

Students Benefits:

Students explore the range of existing and emerging career tracks available in your company;
Learn what it takes to be successful in the workplace
Are exposed to the importance of navigating and fitting in with the work culture
Experience what a typical day on the job is like in your work environment; and
Are mentored by inspirational and knowledgeable role models - you, your colleagues or your employees!

Whenever possible, we encourage companies to involve senior executives in their company sponsored JA Job Shadow effort.

Company Benefits:

It's easy. JA New York provides all the materials and support to make your recruitment efforts and JA Job Shadow experience turn-key, low effort, high return on investment:

You invest a minimum amount of time to coordinate and host a company sponsored JA Job Shadow experience
JA Job Shadow promotes company involvement in education and in the community
JA Job Shadow allows your company to invest in preparing a competitive and skilled future workforce
JA Job Shadow positions and showcases your company and brand to future consumers
JA Job Shadow increases job satisfaction of your employees who want to become involved in public service

Employee Volunteer Benefits:

Your employees create social value and impact by helping students prepare for their future.
Employees serve as role models by sharing their career and educational experiences
JA Job Shadow is a low effort, high return employee volunteer opportunity that requires minimal time commitment.

Your company sponsored JA Job Shadow will allow students to receive educationally enriching, career exploration experiences that will help them to make important career and life decisions. Whenever possible, students are matched as per their career interests.

Host Responsibilities:

The host company commits to hosting 2 - 20 students for a minimum of 3 hours.
The host company works with its JA contact to plan an agenda for the half-day event
The host company recruits employees to host 1-2 students each for a portion of the day*

*Students can shadow more than one employee as long as there are no more than 2 students assigned to each employee at any given time.

Typically, a Job Shadow Consists of:

Breakfast or lunch with the students
A tour of your facilities
A hands on experience/activity (optional)
An opportunity to meet various senior executives at your firm
An opportunity to meet and interact with various staff members/departments

Bottom-line: Your achievements have required more luck: you've worked hard,you've accomplished much and you've got a lot of knowledge and experience to share.

Take pride in your career accomplishments by hosting a JA Job Shadow event.Use your career achievements to motivate young people to a successful future!

To set-up a JA Job Shadow experience at your company: E-mail:jobshadow@jany.org.