Students learn through job shadowing

| January 25, 2011 5:00 AM

MOSES LAKE - There's no better way to learn a job than by doing it.

This is the idea behind the Job Corps Groundhog Job Shadow Day, which takes students from the classroom and places them in the workplace around Grant County.

Each year, Job Corps teaches approximately 63,000 students the skills they need to become employable and workplace mentors are needed to host students in different jobs for Feb. 2.

In the past businesses including Cave B Inn, Professional Pharmacy, Port of Moses Lake, Moses Lake School District, United Brotherhood of Carpenters Columbia Basin Training Center as well as elected officials congressman Doc Hastings, R-Wash., state representative Judy Warnick, R-Moses Lake, and State Representative Bill Hinkle, R-Cle Elum.

If you would like to allow a Columbia Basin Job Corps student to shadow you for a day, call Susan Mann, the business community liaison and work-based learning coordinator, at 509-793-1663.

- Staff report