Teens Gear Up For Philadelphia's Summer Jobs Program
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - School's out. Now thousands of Philadelphia students are getting acquainted with their city-sponsored summer jobs.
Orientation sessions are underway for this year's WorkReady summer jobs program, says Philadelphia Youth Network Executive VP Stephanie Gambone:
"We're actually preparing this summer to place at least 8000 young people in some kind of work experience."
The six-week paid internships for those aged 14-21 start July 5th.
"Young people work in a variety of settings -- small businesses, nonprofits, large companies," explains Gambone.
This is the fourth year in the program for 17-year-old Nasir Mack. He thought he wanted to be an architect, but says his first WorkReady internship at an engineering firm gave him career direction:
"I realized at that young age, like, 'maybe this is not for me!' But growing older and working in different fields, I finally got my head straight on where I want to go and I want to go into the field of business."
This summer Nasir will be working at Comcast.