StreetWise Partners Will Hold Job Training Event in DC

11.27.2007

Mock Interview Session Seeks to Bridge Divide for the Unemployed & Working Poor

StreetWise Partners (SWP), a national volunteer-driven nonprofit that helps to build skills for low-income career-seekers, will hold a Mock Interview Day on Saturday, December 1st, at the Gallup Organization offices in Washington, DC. Volunteer business professionals from area corporations – including Booz Allen Hamilton, Corporate Executive Group, Fannie Mae, and the World Bank – will join StreetWise Partners in an all-day effort to prepare more than 70 adults for new careers in the business sector.

Mock Interview Day is a critical component of SWP’s 15 week intensive career-building program for low-income adults. The interviews provide a unique, skills-building experience designed to create a hands-on, real world job interview environment conducted by top executives in the DC area who will play the role of “potential employers.” Through employer exposure, career mentorship, and interactive training, SWP is unlike any other volunteer workforce development organization. Since 2006, StreetWise Partners DC has worked with 70 low-income individuals and more than 150 volunteers from more than 60 employers in the Washington, DC area, including Amgen, the Carlyle Group, Citigroup, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, and International Finance Corporation. Together with corporate partners like the Gallup Organization, SWP creates networks for change that enable motivated, low-income individuals to build skills for work and employment opportunities for life.

WHAT: StreetWise Partners’ Mock Interview Day

WHERE: Gallup Organization
The Gallup Building
901 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20004

WHEN: Saturday, December 1, 2007
10 am – 4 pm

CONTACT:Emilee Ballaro, by 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Email: emilee@streetwisepartners.org
Phone: 212.253.6965

StreetWise Partners welcomes media coverage of this program. Media representatives are invited to attend the Mock Interview event, and program participants and StreetWise Partners’ volunteers and leadership will be accessible upon request. Stories about StreetWise Partners have appeared in the NY Daily News and the New York Times.

To attend Mock Interview Day, you must be included on the guest list. To register or obtain additional information about the program, please contact Emilee Ballaro, 212.253.6965.

About StreetWise Partners
Established in New York City in 1997, StreetWise Partners builds mentoring relationships between low-income individuals and volunteer business professionals to develop workplace skills and employment networks as the bridge to a successful career. SWP has worked with more than 2,500 volunteers and hundreds of corporations to provide career training programs in 12 week cycles for young adults (18 to 24 years old) and 15 week cycles for adults (25 and older). The rigorous curriculum focuses on professional workplace skills, job placement and career coaching. Our vision is that one day all citizens will have the skills and opportunities to become economically self-sufficient and achieve their full potential. StreetWise Partners also envisions a world where all corporations effectively hire, retain and advance top talent from low-income communities.