SUMMER EMPLOYMENT:
Where: There were more than 6,800 work sites as part of last summer's offerings, including the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, the Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing and the Recycle-a-Bicycle workshop in Long Island City, Queens.
When: July 7 to Aug. 15
Highlights: Young people work in day camps, law firms and doctors' offices. They are tour guides, interpreters and tree planters. For many participants, like Paulette Joseph, a 16-year-old from Baychester, the program provides a first taste of the working world.
"It taught me how to manage my time and made me more responsible," Joseph said of her administrative assistant job last summer at the National Financial Network near Wall Street, where she learned, for instance, how to make spreadsheets.
"This was a big job to have," said Joseph, who now dreams of being an investment banker. "I wore a suit everyday."
Deadlines and other useful information: Applications available from March 3. For updates, check www.nyc.gov/dycd or follow DYCD on Twitter or Facebook. Participants are paid $8 an hour for 20 to 25 hours a week.
Eligibility: The program is open to all New York City residents between the ages of 14 and 24. More than 135,000 young people applied for last summer's roughly 36,000 jobs, which were awarded through a lottery and application process.
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