Job Prep

High School and College

Career Readiness
With almost 100,000 young Chicagoans,
ages 17 through 24, neither in school nor
employed, CPY has continued to expand its
Job Preparation initiative. Since the
organization’s inception in 2005, Job
Preparation has been one of our most
positively impactful programs. Many of our
volunteers are young professionals
themselves and are fully aware of what it
takes to succeed in the working world,
especially at the entry level. In turn, they
collaborate with our young employment-
seekers both in larger groups and one-on-
one to build resumes, practice interviewing, GETTING INVOLVED with
and discuss the specific skills that today’s JOB PREP
competitive workplace demands of its
• Mentoring our young
newest members.
employment-seekers requires

About Jobs for Youth as little as one hour a month

Since 1979, Jobs for Youth (JfY) Chicago has during your lunchtime.
made it there mission to help young men • All sessions are conveniently
and women from low income families held downtown at 17 North
become a part of the economic mainstream
State Street.
and, in the process, provide the business
• To join this CPY initiative or for
community with motivated job-ready
workers. JfY offers work readiness/life skills
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