City of Houston is looking to hire 20 thousand youth for Summer jobs
(City of Houston)
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The Summer hiring program for the City of Houston once employed 450 youth for an eight-week program.
This summer the goal is to put 20,000 youth between the ages of 16 and 24 on the payroll.
“We expanded the initiative to include the private and nonprofit sectors and that’s how ‘Hire Houston Youth’ was born,” said Velma Laws, the Assistant Chief Policy Officer and Special Projects Coordinator for the city.
Laws said the process is easy by visiting their website here.
“They can register, create a profile, and then they’re able to go to the job board and search for different types of jobs and there are thousands, literally thousands of jobs there with all kinds of employers,” she said.
Also on the program is Carisia Banda, the Director of Public Affairs for Houston City Council Member Karla Cisneros. Banda is an example of the possible fruits of this program. It was her first job while in college and she says it laid the foundation for where she is now.