Dally’s Auto Body recently hosted Sabino Flores, a Skagit Valley College auto body student in a job shadow.
Thank you Mark and Gloria Hulst for helping out with the Experience Work Project or EWP, the Mount Vernon Chamber’s primary work force development initiative. The EWP is designed to help students connect with local employers for job shadows and internships in the interest of helping our community and build our future workforce.
Hosting a job shadow helps students of all ages prepare themselves to become valuable employees. It also helps them:
- Learn about the job market and potential career paths
- Interact with professionals in their field and make contacts for future employment opportunities
- Apply technical skills they learned in the classroom
- Develop self confidence, maturity, responsibility and human relation skills
The time required to host a job shadow is nominal, only 3 hours of having the student on-site and then a couple of minutes filling out an assessment.
There are other benefits for employers. Job shadows are just the beginning and can lead to an internship with the student working on site for up to 10 hours per week for 4 weeks.
This is at no cost to the employer other than the time it takes to train. Besides the benefit of the an extra set of hands, the internship can help an employer identifying possible new employees for their business
If you are interested in learning more about the EWP, go to www.experienceworkproject.com, call Kristen Whitener at (360)428-8547 or Darlene Mindrum at (360)840-9780.
