Hi, welcome to the youth employment development course. I'm Deon price. What is the bottom line for most adults, the bottom line for everyone should be finding and maintaining gainful employment. This course will help the most challenging population in employment here in the US. The unemployment rate is 4.9% generally, but for youth ages 16 to 24 is up to 25%. Very challenging the most difficult generation and target group of people to employ Are you young adults between the ages of 16 and 24.

And those who are returning to the workforce, this course will speak to that very human need of improving the quality of life for you through gainful employment. How well My name is Deon price. I've been teaching Working in this population for several years through the Department of Labor in the United States, also the school districts and prisons where people coming out and going into the workforce. This curriculum has been successful in every one of those arenas. What it speaks to is employers evaluate potential employees on three things, what they read about you what they see and what they hear. This course will specifically prepare you to look outstanding and all three of those areas, you will look good on paper, you will look good in person and you will be able to sell your product and impress a potential employer to gainful employment by finding and landing and keeping that job.

This course will include completing an entire important package which includes a resume, cover letter, list of references, and any credentials that you may have. And also teach you some very unique tools on how to impress an employer that you won't see anywhere. So again, Youth Employment Development class speaking to a very need of improving the quality of life for youth by obtaining, maintaining and retaining gainful employment. I look forward to working with you this huge generation join the course. Let's get started. Okay, this is generation Part One applying for the gig Youth Employment Development training.

My name is Deon price. The thing we'd like to start with is a quote, success happens when opportunity meets preparation. This quote will hold true and will be a theme through the entire training and it holds true in any capacity. If you're an athlete, and you have athletic competition on the weekend. What are you doing during the week? You raining, you're conditioning, you're preparing for your opponent, opponent, you're possibly doing research, or doing watching films on the opponent preparing for your game strategy, more than likely you're going to be successful or more successful, and that has led to competition.

The same holds true if you're in academics. If you have a test on Friday, what are you doing on Wednesday and Thursday, you're studying, you're going over your notes, you're preparing for what you project that you're going to see on that particular test. And more than likely, you too will be more successful in that academic challenge. The same is true in your employment. If you have an interview on Friday, on Wednesday, and Thursday, you're probably preparing. You're studying your notes.

You're studying your resume package and your employment package. you're researching the company, making sure you are well versed and what the interview questions are going to ask or the interviewer is going to ask you, you preparing for the questions or the challenges that may exist in that particular position. Applying for and more than likely YouTube will be more successful. Again, success happens when opportunity meets preparation, employability skills. The theme of this is developing employability skills which is so critical because employability skills in my opinion is more valuable than technical skills. Eventually you can learn more technical skills, but if you don't have the employability skills, even the technical skills will not maintain you because there are a lot of individuals who are talented skilled, technically, but are unemployed because they lack employability skills.

For example, if you don't know how to show up on time, you're not dependable no matter how talented you are or skilled you are technically, you will not last in that environment, you will not That's why 65% of young people lose their jobs within the first three months of employment. This is why because they lack employability skills, communication skills, dependability the interpersonal skills Conflict Resolution is professionalism, absolutely vital, I maintain and I believe that employability skills. And those soft skills are more valuable than technical skills. You're gonna learn a few of them here. The employment environment also something we need to be mindful of in this training, here is the employment environment that you are facing. The US has a national unemployment rate of looks like pretty good 4.9%.

But the reality is, what is it for you the age group, and the focus and a target group that we're searching for and we're looking for in this training is 16 to 24 year olds, and those individual who have been out of the workforce for several years and returning to the workforce for someone for some reason or the other, look at the unemployment rate, the unemployment rate for that age group 25%, almost four, even almost five times more than the national rate. The youth 16 to 24 year old are the toughest population to maintain. in employment, the most challenging population, and this is who we're speaking to. This is what this is what this train is designed to do to counter some of those barriers that youth and young adults will face going into today's job market. Look at it more specifically, by ethnicity. African Americans are the highest have the highest unemployment rate of any group in the nation.

Also, next is Hispanics, then Asians and Caucasians, this gives you a more detailed perspective of who has the highest and where the challenges are. If you fit in one of these categories, This train is going to be even more valuable to you to overcome some of those barriers because you will be employable and you will be impressive. Again, success happens when opportunity meets preparation