Well past the midway mark on the veterans and military hiring front, Starbucks is also expanding its efforts to
hire Opportunity Youth — 16 - to 24 - year - olds who are neither employed or in school; an estimated 5.4 million young Americans.
The focus on finding jobs for youth is an extension of Starbucks global commitment to
hiring Opportunity Youth — those between the ages of 16 and 24 who aren't in school and aren't working.
Not exact matches
- The company has already reached 70 % (7,000 employees) of its 10,000 - employee commitment for
hiring «
opportunity youth» (unemployed young people who are not in school) as well as being 25 % of the way toward its even more ambitious 100,000
opportunity youth hiring goal, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, that Starbucks successfully goaded other corporate giants (Target, Walmart, etc.) to join in.
This summer the coalition announced it had already
hired 100,000 young people two years ahead of schedule, and is now working to
hire 1 million
opportunity youth over the next three years.
In 2015, the company committed to
hiring 10,000
opportunity youth by 2018 and has already met that goal.
Through networking
opportunities at the Solutions City ™ town halls, local Starbucks store manager Andrew Bertolino discovered Homeport, a local affordable housing organization, to help spearhead a
hiring initiative for
opportunity youth.
Through the Solutions City ™ town halls, Starbucks also had the
opportunity to build a stronger relationship with the COWIC to support the
hiring of
opportunity youth in the community.
In November it announced that 10 percent of new
hires in stores will be
opportunity youth, and over the next three years it will create 600 work placements for
youth who are not ready for their first job yet.
Starbucks has
hired more than 40,000
Opportunity Youths and is committed to
hiring 100,000 by 2020.
The Work
Opportunity Tax Credit is available for employers who
hire individuals from groups facing high rates of unemployment, such as veterans,
youths and various disadvantaged communities.