Related<\/span>Indiana Banking Apprenticeships and Academy to Break the Mold for U.S. Training<\/h4><\/div><\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n\n
In many cases, with few companies stepping up to take on interns or apprenticeships, students are placed instead in government offices or with nonprofits that advocate for work opportunities. The D.C. program has apprentices with the Department of Labor and with New America, a left-leaning think tank that is part of the national Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indiana also placed early apprentices with Ascend Indiana, a non-profit that helped create them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Schools and communities also lean on experiences that partly simulate or mirror work experience. These can include students doing exploratory summer internships with industry associations or schools that partner with companies so students earn money by doing a project, such as a small coding or marketing task, through school for the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though there\u2019s no consensus on where these fall on the continuum of work experiences, ASA\u2019s Lammers said they can be worthwhile, if students are working on real-world problems for employers that intend to use the work product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf it is high- intensity project based learning, where young people are still exposed to a career\u2026and are able to understand that it’s not just sort of an academic exercise\u2026 there is huge value in that,\u201d she said. \u201cIt might not just be the nine-to- five paid experience that we sort of see in an internship, and that might be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Others look to third parties that the field is calling \u201cintermediaries\u201d to navigate some of the complex legal, liability and training issues, as well as to recruit, select and train students, along with training company staff in how to work with teenagers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Boston, the city\u2019s Public Industry Council helps run paid summer internships for high schoolers, while also running staff training sessions to make sure students and companies benefit. CareerWise acts as an intermediary on some levels. Genesys Works, a non-profit, fills that role in eight regions \u2014 Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Tulsa and Washington, D.C., with Jacksonville coming next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Genesys gives students eight-week of unpaid training in the summer after 11th grade before placing them in paid internships for 20 hours a week as seniors. Students are paid employees of Genesys, not the companies, but they work in the offices of companies like Accenture, Medtronic or Target, the latter in corporate offices, not stocking shelves or working a register like Brown-Weaver\u2019s friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe’re going to our corporate partners saying, like, what are the roles, entry level roles in your corporate offices that you are filling over and over again?\u201d said Mandy Hildenbrand, chief services officer of Genesys. \u201cLet’s talk about how we can be a pipeline for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For many apprenticeship advocates, some of the barriers are more about attitudes than real problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCulturally, U.S. companies haven’t traditionally viewed themselves as a training ground or an extension of the classroom,\u201d said Ginsburg, founder of CareerWise, the nation\u2019s largest youth apprenticeship program. \u201cThere’s a big difference between having an intern look over your shoulder and actually expecting real work from an apprentice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said businesses should recognize that while they won\u2019t see immediate returns, they will if they are patient and take the time to train students well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt’s hard,\u201d he said, \u201cbefore it gets easy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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