Video: AT&T Hosts Job Shadow With Local High School Students

By , AT&T

Students from local Bay Area high schools visited AT&T’s San Ramon campus for a special event celebrating AT&T/Junior Achievement Job Shadow Initiative’s which has reached over 100,000 students in the program’s first four years.

At the event on Wednesday, students were paired with AT&T employees to participate in several job training activities, including an interactive technology seminar, a marketing and branding workshop and a tour of AT&T’s facility.

The students also heard from special guest Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer of the San Francisco Giants, about the importance of finding a career that they are passionate about.

Nearly 170 students from local high schools including East Palo Alto Academy, Pinole Valley High School, DeAnza High School, San Leandro High School and Los Altos High School participated in this event, which was one of 62 locations across the U.S. simultaneously holding job shadow events.

Building on the success of AT&T’s first Job Shadow Initiative, a key component of Aspire, AT&T will use similar events such as this to create an evolved Job Shadow program in which employee-student teams learn work and life skills, explore real business problems and form lasting relationships.

This Job Shadow program will be part of Aspire Mentoring Academy, launching in fall 2012.