Gain some skills in the application process. Putting your resume online. How to tie a tie very quickly in a competition. How to look someone in the eye and say im so and so and i want to help your company be successful. These are disciplines that go along with just getting a paycheck. Its how you present yourself. Its how you tell your story about who you are. It is about how to gain that supervisorial support to be successful in the workplace and create a foundation for you and your family. I have a broad vision. That is that these jobs will help our youth not just occupy time and space. It is job skill sets, association with each other on the workplace. Its understanding everything from the chain of command to how you treat customers to how you really can add value to what a company is attempting to seek by creating opportunities there. And in this job, my staff really worked hard to make sure i wasnt just numerically oriented. This morning, also i have permission to tell you that la
That will be launched today but just as excited that ultimately you share with me the great belief that you believe in the city from education, to after School Programs to when they are even kids like riley is to step, we are in college accounts. This is an incredible city. Im honored to be your mayor and to be in this city. Thank you for being here today. [ applause ] flopping, huh . All right. She is the fierce advocate and champion for those in need. The leader of the united way bay area ceo ann wilson. No i am not going to flop. Its pretty hard to follow that, mr. Mayor. Thank you very much. This is my pep rally of the year. The feel good event of the year. You know, starting us out thinking about our first job. I cant help you but say i remember so well on a new jersey highway and a customer who allowed me to serve their hotdog on their lap on my first job. Those moments of starting out is where this program begins. At new this room and your colleagues as employers who welcome in
The city, but its an in incredibly important critical part. I want people to be able to earn their affordability of owning a home or rent in the city. This is where you come in. This is a special day for me because this is the way i like to begin the morning. When i can begin the morning by saying im going to find a job for somebody, im going to help them access the skills they need, introduce them to the world of our corporate leaders, our nonprofit leaders and allow them to be successful, it has to be a good feeling every morning besides coffee. The other thing i wanted to say, i told eric, i was going to surprise him this morning. If we successful then im going to ask eric to do something for all of us this morning. He wont do it, but i just wanted to play with him this morning because there is a new dance in the city. A dance that i learned and i saw very vividly and now its the talk of the nba and that is called the flop. The mvp got fined for doing a flop dance. There is nothing
Dance and celebrate because thats what i would like you all to do. When you achieve those Job Opportunities for our youth, i want to you do a flop dance. The kids to do a flop dance. They have earned the time to dance. Im going to ask the mayor to do their flop dance tonight when i enter into a regional discussion with what we are all about with the city. I want you all celebrating this because we are already on our way. The numbers that i have heard, the commitment that i have already been hearing about are not only going to reach our numbers, they are going to find these incredible stories, and stories like jose is going to share with us in a moment. I want to share my enthusiasm for sharing these wonderful jobs. That is what we are about. We work with each other, collaborate with each other, and we try to use our success to infect each other with this level. Thats what they are going to do today and thats what we are going to do tonight on houston. We are going to share that success
Will put him on that spot any day. He might just sing a song. Hes about to get you all on your feet to raise your hands and invite you to be a part of this and maybe add one more job. One more internship to make sure that our young people in this city really are having a great experience this summer. In a moment, you will hear from a young person who has been a part of this. Make him feel welcome. Its kind of scary to be up here sitting next to the mayor, but its what its all about. So, again our thanks from the united way, our board and staff and me colleagues from around this room because we love this program, we love being a part of it. My thanks to those of you in the room who are supporters of the united way you enabled us to do this work for our community. Thank you very much. [ applause ] what else should i do . Im going to dance, im going to sing. Im going to introduce our next speaker. A wonderful partner. Please welcome kate. Good morning, i guess i stand between you guys and