Summer Jobs+ calls government, non-profits and businesses to provide job opportunities for low-income and disconnected youth during the summer of 2012. Employers can choose to help by providing life skills, work skills or a learn-and-earn approach.
- Life skills entails providing soft skills, such as communication or time management, through coursework and mentoring.
- Work skills involves providing job shadowing opportunities and internships that will help prepare youths for employment.
- The learn-and-earn approach provides on-the-job skills in learning environments while earning wages.