Business Pros Offer Students Insight into Working
World During 10th Annual Job Shadow Day
DUARTE, CA., January 18, 2012– More than 150 Duarte High School students will have the opportunity to spend a day learning about a variety of jobs and careers while they gain valuable insight into the working world during the 10th annual Groundhog Job Shadow Day slated for Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
The program, sponsored by the City of Duarte, Duarte’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth and the City of Hope, allows students to shadow adult mentors as they go about their normal work day in numerous careers including banking, healthcare, politics, education, and journalism, among others. City of Hope, Duarte Chamber of Commerce, JPL, New York Life Insurance, Assembly Member Anthony Portantino’s Office, Santa Teresita, Duarte Library, Royal Oaks Manor, DLL Business Solutions, Santa Anita Family YMCA are among the numerous business’s participating at this years event.
Duarte’s Groundhog Job Shadow Day will kick off with an opening ceremony and breakfast for students and mentors at 7:30 a.m. at the Duarte Community Center. After spending the next several hours together on the job, students and mentors will return to the Community Center for a luncheon featuring guest speaker, Executive Director of Foothill Work Force Investment Board, Phil Dunn.
For more information or to become a sponsoring worksite, call Duarte’s Promise at 626/357-7931, ext. 267.
