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Product Description Minority youth unemployment is an enduring economic and social concern. This book evaluates two new initiatives for minority high school students that seek to cultivate marketable job skills. The first is an after-school program that provides experiences similar to apprenticeships, and the second emphasizes new approaches to improving job interview performance. The evaluation research has several distinct strengths. It involves a randomized controlled trial, uncommon in assessments of this issue and age group. Marketable job skills are assessed through a mock job interview developed for this research and administered by experienced human resource professionals. Mixed methods are utilized, with qualitative data shedding light on what actually happens inside the programs, and a developmental science approach situating the findings in terms of adolescent development. Beneficial for policy makers and practitioners as well as scholars, Job Skills and Minority Youth focuses on identifying the most promising tactics and addressing likely implementation issues. Review 'Clearly written and accessible to a wide audience, Job Skills and Minority Youth is an original and valuable contribution to two fields that are ordinarily separate: youth development and employment training. One of the most distinctive and promising aspects of the program described in this book is its enlistment of representatives from 'primary' labor market firms - HR officers - to aid in training and testing disadvantaged youth. This is a bridge few programs build. The 'backward mapping' scheme laid out by Hirsch serves as both a succinct summary of the logic of the program and a clear rationale for focusing efforts on what matters most in helping to open opportunities for young people from Chicago's poorest neighborhoods and for others from comparable communities.' Stephen F. Hamilton, Cornell University, New York'This book presents a brilliant evaluation of two programs that seek to increase minority youth employment. The integration of quantitative and qualitative analyses provides an exemplary model for mixed-methods research. The development of a mock job interview for high school students, administered by experienced human resource professionals, is especially innovative and of enormous, immediate use for practitioners … Practical implications are discussed extensively from an implementation perspective. This highly readable book is a major contribution to the literature on positive youth development and I recommend it with my highest and most unqualified enthusiasm. It advances theory-predicated applications of developmental science as no other book has done. It will be the standard against which future contributions will be measured.' Richard M. Lerner, Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and Director, Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Tufts University'This is amazing and important work and a very well written book. Hirsch deserves kudos from researchers, policy makers, practitioners, advocates and, in particular, young people … [He] zooms in on a pivotal and concrete step towards increasing youth employment: the job interview. The development of a mock job interview for teens allows everyone involved to focus on something concrete and relatively controllable. Hirsch works with professional HR interviewers to deconstruct their scoring criteria and actually do the mock interviews. He offers cogent and practical descriptions of what separates the best- and worst-hire sites, with special attention to the soft skills that are so important to the HR interviewers. He identifies the theories behind the two most successful approaches and recommends the approach that most youth development and youth employment practitioners can master. In short, Hirsch nailed it. Read the book. Take notes. Ask for the tools. This is really terrific work.' Karen Pittman, President and CEO, The Forum for Youth Investment

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19 November 2015
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