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JA JOB SHADOW PROGRAM KICK-OFF: FEBRUARY 2010

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?

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

If you love your job, why not share it with a kid? Each February, Junior Achievement New York kicks-off its year round career exploration program with a month-long series of high profile job shadow activities with NYC media outlets. The Kick-off month creates awareness and visibility for Junior Achievement?s popular career education program, which takes kids behind the scenes of NYC businesses. Students learn about current and emerging career opportunities and get to meet and connect with professional businessmen and women like you ? the movers and shakers of the NYC and Long Island business community. 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. 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 year, volunteers from NYC and Long Island businesses sign-up to host student who spend a portion of their day shadowing their host in the workplace. Students will:

Explore the range of career tracks available in the company
Learn what it takes to be successful in the workplace
Be 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
Be mentored by inspirational and knowledgeable role models.

Whenever possible, we encourage companies to involve senior executives in the Company Job Shadow effort.

Company Benefits:
It's easy. JA provides all the materials and support to make your recruitment efforts and job shadow experience low effort & turn-key:

Minimum amount of time investment required to coordinate & host a Job Shadow experience
JA Job Shadow promotes company involvement in education and in the community
JA Job Shadow prepares our future workforce & showcases your company & brand to the future workforce and consumers
JA Job Shadow provides fulfilling opportunities for employees to get involved in public service

Employee Volunteer Benefits:

Helps students prepare for their future.
Provides employees with an opportunity to serve as role models and to share their career experiences
Fun, easy and minimal time commitment.

With your support, the 2010 DISNEY JANY JOB SHADOW WEEK in NYC will allow students to receive educationally enriching experiences that will help them to make important career and life decisions about school and work. 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 per 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

If you have any questions, e-mail jobshadow@jany.org.