Friday, February 8, 2002
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Friday, February 8, 2002 |
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Students shadow mentors, learn about work Local companies and government offices responded to Junior Achievement's call to allow metro area students to shadow their employees recently for a realistic behind the scenes look at careers and the work place. The effort was done in conjunction with National Groundhog Job Shadow Day, a day to kick off a year-long Job Shadow program organized by America's Promise, Junior Achievement and the Society of Human Resource Management. The national sponsor is Monster.com with national cosponsor News Corporation. More than 1,150 students from 23 metro area schools visited 27 work places, including Mayor Shirley Franklin's office and the U.S. Department of Labor. Other locations included The Coca-Cola Company, Federal Reserve Bank, Georgia Pacific, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Publix Super Markets, Turner Broadcasting System and UPSbusinesses that also serve as Junior Achievement Board companies. According to a national Junior Achievement "Kids and Careers" poll released this January, kids that shadow are more likely to finish high school. Local students from Inman Middle and Grady High School, Chapel Hill Middle School, Taylor Road Middle School, Shiloh High School and North Cobb High School participated in this study. Survey results also found that today's students are confident in their ability to one day attain their ideal careers. They indicated that 30 percent of all students believe they will "definitely" secure their ideal jobs, 37 percent say they are "pretty sure," and 31 percent say "maybe." Less than 3 percent of students believe it is "not likely." To read full results from the survey, visit www.ja.org/interprise/execsummary.html. Junior Achievement is the world's largest and fastest-growing organization dedicated to educating young people about business, economics and free enterprise. Through age-appropriate curricula, Junior Achievement programs begin at the elementary school level, teaching children how they can affect the world around them as individuals, workers and consumers. Junior Achievement programs continue through the middle and high school grades, preparing students for additional key economic and work force issues they will face in the future. This year, Junior Achievement of Georgia will serve more than 79,000 students in metro Atlanta, Augusta, Gainesville and Savannah.
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