Career chats: How school, home and community teach real career skills
About this video
Four professionals describe how experiences at home, school and in the community gave them early career skills. They mention odd jobs and dishwashing at a diner, helping a parent with construction projects, visiting a TV station and writing for the school newspaper, and joining a community programme that mentors young people in technology.
You'll be able to
- give examples of how home, school and community experiences build career skills.
- connect an early experience to a later career interest.
- identify experiences in my own life that are building skills.
Key words
- clock in
- To record the time you start work, usually at a formal job.
- broadcast journalist
- A person who reports the news on TV or radio.
- news anchor
- The main presenter who reads the news on a TV programme.
- mentor
- To guide and support a less experienced person; also the person who does this.
Transcript
- I would also go out, and wash decks at a local medical center. That one wasn't exactly paid, I would just go there and then the owner of this cleaning company would give me, he'd take me to the diner next door that his family also owned. And they would give me like a cheeseburger and french fries, or whatever it was to go out and do a little bit of work.
So that was always fun. I washed windows. My first like proper job where you go and clock in on the wall was a dishwasher at that diner that I referenced prior. And then after that I went off to Arizona State.
- So my dad works in construction, and he would always have projects around the house, so I would always get to help him with designing, and building and literally learning everything about it. And then following to that, when I was a little bit older, I got a job at Home Depot.
- I decided I wanted to become a broadcast journalist, specifically a news anchor in high school, after I visited a TV station where a family friend was interning. And I watched a live newscast and I thought that was so very, very exciting. There was this energy, right?
And there was lights, and there were people and action. And I've always been interested in the news and current events, and I already wrote for the newspaper at school.
- I found its organization called The Hidden Genius Project in Oakland. That's where they kind of first started. And the initiative was to train and mentor black male youth in technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership. (upbeat music)
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