Scottsdale educator Christianne Meneses Jacobs recently published a book focused on helping young people understand the working world and find their place within it.
In “Professional Life Skills for Young Adults: 7 Keys to Empower Career Readiness,” Meneses Jacobs draws on her many years of classroom experience in Phoenix, where she teaches middle and high school students. Her work, especially her “Career and Life Links” classes, directly informed the advice in her book.
While teaching the elective career class, she heard from frustrated parents about their kids not being taught basic things about the working world…