Major Employers Prepare for Job Shadow Day 2007

Event Kicks Off on February 2nd; Groundhog Day

Washington, DC—On Friday, February 2nd, tens of thousands of employers will host student Job Shadow s as part of Job Shadow Day 2007, a nationwide effort to give young people an up-close look at the world of work by letting them shadow various “career mentors” in their places of work.

Examples of employer involvement include:

ING:

Financial services giant ING’s Job Shadow program is not just on February 2nd. The company has allowed its locations to choose any date during the month of February. The ING offices doing a shadow day include Atlanta, GA; Des Moines, IA; Hartford, CT; Minneapolis, MN; New York, NY and Scottsdale, AZ.

To learn more about ING’s national sponsorship of Job Shadow Day 2007, visit www.JobShadow.org.

Cisco Systems:

To kick off a month long series of events in support of the national initiative, Cisco will be hosting thousands of students from the Cisco Networking Academy Program at events in Austin, TX, Chicago, Ill., Herndon, Va., Research Triangle Park, N.C., New York City, and San Jose, Calif. to learn first-hand about working in the Networking and IT industry. Cisco employees will spend the day volunteering for Junior Achievement and interacting with the students, providing them a real world view of the IT world through round table discussions, facility tours and technology demonstrations. The program helps young people understand that the efforts they invest in the classroom will directly impact their future employability and potential for upward mobility within the global economy

Additional information about Cisco’s Job Shadow Day initiative is available at: http://www.cisco.com/go/promoteitcareers

Other participating employers include:

• AOL
• Best Buy
• Hyatt
• JCPenney
• Marriott
• Time Warner
• Verizon
• Wal-Mart
• Westin Hotels

About Job Shadow Day

National Job Shadow Day is a coordinated effort of America’s Promise - The Alliance for Youth, Junior Achievement, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Labor. National partners include the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) and is made possible through the support of national title sponsor ING. For additional information, including a How-to Guide and a brochure on how to coordinate Job Shadow ing, visit www.JobShadow.org. For more information contact info@jobshadow.org or your local Junior Achievement office.

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