A workforce development program is offering internship jobs to Duval County high school students, some of them from Title One schools. Major companies on the First Coast have signed up as employers.
Nonprofit Genesys Works is new to Jacksonville. It’s partnering with Duval County Public Schools to put 22 high school seniors on a workforce pathway with companies like Brooks Rehabilitation, Community First Credit Union, Comcast and Mayo Clinic, where Englewood High School senior James Luu is interning as a medical administration assistant.
“I’m helping with scheduling doctors’ time offs and helping them with what they need, along with making reports of all the radiology doctors and sending them out to my supervisor and yeah, the experience has been great,” Luu said…