Video: AT&T Hosts Job Shadow With San Leandro High Students

By , AT&T

Students from San Leandro and other Bay Area high schools visited AT&T’s San Ramon campus to take part in AT&T's Junior Achievement Job Shadow Initiative which has reached over 100,000 students in the program’s first four years.

The 170 students who took part included participants from San Leandro High, East Palo Alto Academy, Pinole Valley High, DeAnza High, and Los Altos High. The San Ramon event was one of 62 locations across the U.S. simultaneously holding job shadow events.

At the event 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.

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.

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