Motivated Works
Internship & Employment Opportunities for High School Students and Young Adults
Motivated Works is a program designed to assist high schoolers and young adults discover their passion and interest. Motivated partners with local businesses in various industries to offer internships and opportunities. The high school internships are six weeks during an academic semester or summer and offer hands-on experience.
These internships are providing learning, networking, and job experience that can boost their resume in the future, especially for college applications.
Contact Motivated for more information.
We are very excited about what Motivated CRC is doing for the West Philadelphia community. As you know, our communities are plagued with gun violence and idle mischief. Our goal is to get our youth and young adults off the streets and into a program geared towards education and positive self-development that can enhance their quality of life.
Motivated Works is a program designed to assist high schoolers and young adults in discovering their passion and interest. Motivated Works partners with local businesses in various industries to offer internships and work-based opportunities. We have reached out to local businesses and have obtained a list of internships and employment opportunities for youth ages 14 through adults.
For high schoolers, these internships are providing education, networking, and job experience that can boost their resume in the future, especially for college applications. For young adults, it gets them involved in the workforce, gives them confidence, and aids them in becoming productive members of society.
The benefit for Businesses and Organizations partnering with Motivated Work:
• Strengthens partnership with Motivated Works and builds a positive community image
• Assists young people in finding a career in which s/he might be passionate about
• Assists young people in understanding what employers expect of employees
• Contributes to the academic growth of students and prepares a highly-skilled workforce
• Provides an opportunity to share experiences, insights, and knowledge with students and, subsequently, improves supervisory and motivational skills of employees
• Energizes current employees who serve as a mentors
• Facilitates recruitment of qualified employees with less training costs and turnover
With training and workshops, we will expose our youth to as many diverse career fields as possible and discover where their passions lie and help them earn the credentials they need and earn employment experience. By connecting youth to the workforce, they will most likely want to be employed.
Internship and employment opportunities available:
Daycare
Hair Salon
Receptionist
and more.....
For more information, contact Gwen Hood today at 215-921-2552 or email us at motivatedcrc@gmail.com.
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Motivated Works is pleased to be partnered with "The Wardrobe". This program allow teen to be able to have suitable clothing for job interviews. The pass is worth $50. In order for students to receive the Pass, they most complete a two week job skills training and mock interview workshop. These trainings are totally free.
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Through these trainings, we will expose teens to as many diverse career fields as possible and discover where their passion lie. By connecting youth to the workforce, they will most likely to want to be employed. Through the Motivated Works job training and workshops we will help teens earn the credentials they need and earn employment experience. Motivated will connect the teem with internships, summer-job programs and other type of work-based opportunities.
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Partnerships like The Wardrobe allows Motivated to continue to be of service to our teens and young adults.
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