> Press Release
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For Information Contact:
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Marsha Cole - Program Coordinator
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(310) 358-4922
YOUTHS ANSWER
TO CAREERS BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE
ENTERTAINMENT
INDUSTRY IS Y.E.S. TO JOBS
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Minority
Internship Program Offers On-The-Job Training for Youth
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> If you believe that all you need is your foot in the door. Well,
now here's your chance. Y.E.S. TO JOBS, Youth Entertainment Summer is the
program for you.
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> Y.E.S. TO JOBS (Youth Entertainment Summer) is offering 10 weeks of summer
> employment to qualified, minority, high-school students.
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> The program places students in entry level-positions at record, music
> distribution and publishing companies, television and radio stations,
entertainment
> retail stores, film companies, law firms, trade publications and other
related business. Y.E.S. TO JOBS has helped students get their foot in the door of the very competitive entertainment industry
for fifteen years. The program will be operating in the following cities in the
summer of 2001:
> Atlanta, Boston (Wakefield, MA), Chicago (Glendale Heights and Itasca,IL),
Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, New York, San Francisco/Bay
Area, Seattle and Washington DC. Y.E.S. TO JOBS is open to 16-18 year old minority high-school students with a 2.5
GPA, a letter of recommendation and 90% attendance in school.
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> Here's a chance to broaden your career options, get real-life work
> experience and learn the truth about what it takes to work in the
> entertainment industry. Interested students can download the
application
> for our website at www.yestojobs.org or write for an application
to: Y.E.S.
> TO JOBS, P.O. Box 3390, Los Angeles, CA 90078-3390.
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Deadline to submit application is April 1,
2001.