FIN 2017-03-07 Item 2B - Discussion - Job Shadow and Internship Program

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City of Tukwila Allan Ekberg, Mayor TO: Finance Committee FROM: Mia Navarro, Community Engagement Manager CC: Mayor Ekberg DATE: March 1, 2017 SUBJECT: Job Shadow and Internship Program Briefing ISSUE City leadership shares a goal of exposing Tukwila's young people to employment opportunities available at the City, as well as having the City's workforce better represent the broader community. As a way to achieve these goals, the City of Tukwila is developing a job shadow and internship program for high school students in Tukwila. Through this program we have the opportunity to expose local high school students to diverse, living wage careers in city government, and to develop a pipeline of diverse, local candidates for City jobs. BACKGROUND We know that there is interest among Tukwila high school students in internship and job shadow opportunities. In 2016, City staff collected student interest surveys at the Foster High School Career Fair. We received 24 completed surveys, and students could select as many departments as they wanted in either the Summer Internships or Job Shadow categories. Summer Internships # Students Job Shadow # Students Interested Interested Public Works/Engineering & 11 Fire 9 Maintenance Community Development/Building & 10 Mayor's Office 7 Planning Parks 10 Community 7 Development/Building & Planning Police 9 Police 7 Fire 8 Public Works/Engineering & 5 Maintenance Recreation 8 Parks 5 Communications 7 Human Resources 4 Human Resources 5 Communications 4 Mayor's Office 5 Recreation 3 City Clerk's Office 4 Technology and Innovation 3 Services Municipal Court 4 City Clerk's Office 3 91