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Contact Us
For more information about the Job1 program, or to get your own club involved, please drop us a line, give us a call, or even stop by our office.
Job1 Main Office
65 W. Jackson Boulevard
Room 911
Chicago, IL 60604
312-884-JOB1
Chairperson
Rob Knuepfer, Jr. - Chicago
312-861-8913
robert.c.knuepfer.jr@bakernet.com
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Job 1
Rotary Club of Chicago shares success program aimed at Teenagers. Job 1, formerly known as Job Start, is a program that we started last year. The City requested us to assist them with helping to make their Kid Start program, which is a program that helps Chicago youth find summer employment, more successful within the private marketplace. We then met with representatives of the Chicago Public Schools to help us identity good candidates, and we committed to helping to find them substantive jobs with businesses in Chicago, preferably in an office setting. We set up 3 training sessions for the students, in conjunction with the Society of Human Resource Professionals and the National Institute for Teaching Entrepreneurship, and provided each one of the students with a Rotary advisor. Finally, we recruited employers to give them a full-time job for eight weeks during the summer at a minimum of $8 an hour.
 We have received a great deal of positive feedback from the students and employers. The project works well as a Rotary project on several levels:
-it engages a large number of members
-it helps a large number of students to obtain positive experiences and
-it assists them with not only finding a substantive job, by establishing professional contacts for future referrals and/or job-networking,
-it enhances Rotary`s profile in the City
-it provides the Club with a potential source of new members, including the employers and, farther into the future, the students
For more information, you can visit our website at www.job1world.org.
This past year, many JobStart advisors came from other Chicago-area Rotary clubs, including the Rotary Club of Chicago – Financial District, Rotary Club of Chicago Near South, Rotary Club of  Chicago Far South, and Rotary Club of Chicago Near North. We encourage interested members of these and our other area sister clubs to contact the Rotary Club of Chicago staff office if interested in participating as an advisor for this year’s program. (Email info@rotaryone.org or call 312-884-JOB1.)
We are also looking to starting Job1 programs in other local communities and are developing means to support and educate other clubs in their efforts.
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