Putting local youth to work
For Bill Cain, assistant director of recruitment services for the Office of Human Resources, the bar for Harvard’s Summer Youth Employment Program is pretty high. And he couldn’t be happier about that. “Feedback is always positive, but last year, 100 percent of Harvard hiring managers said they would participate in the program again,” he said. The program employs local high school students from Boston and Cambridge on Harvard’s campus during the summer months. For some young people, it’s their first job. Cain, who has been coordinating and overseeing the program for eight years, added that those high approval ratings go both ways, since many students come back to work at Harvard for several summers. Any department is eligible to participate in the program, whether the position is full-time or for just a few hours a week. The cost of having a teen employee work full-time the whole term from July to August is...