Geared for Success

In 2006, the YPC teamed up with the Cabell County Youth Empowerment Program to provide students with professional work attire. In an effort to provide young men and women with the opportunity to obtain the professional attire necessary to attend a job interview and begin their careers, members of the YPC created Geared for Success, a clothing donation program which provides apparel to students completing their GED through the Youth Empowerment Program. Community members began donating items to the program and donation drives will be ongoing. Items are available at the Douglass Centre, 1448 10th Ave., Room 224, Huntington. To arrange an appointment, call (304) 522-0576.

YPC: On Campus

The YPC and Marshall University’s Lewis College of Business have created a program that will allow business students to work with active young professionals in the Huntington area to learn about existing opportunities, create professional relationships, and gain real-world networking and interviewing techniques. The benefit of working with professionals who were recently students themselves, gives business students opportunities to learn from those who have first hand, recent knowledge of what it’s like to be deciding on a career path, job hunting or starting with a new company. The YPC has already begun to make an impact on business students. How? By going to lunch. Speaking to classes. Students can learn what life is like for young professionals in Huntington by scheduling a lunch through the business office or attending a speaker presentation… a great way to get an inside look at local opportunities and insights.