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Follows six young adults in a rigorous skills training program for Fortune 500 internships, highlighting the need for skills-based hiring over college degrees, featuring industry leaders sharing perspectives on the skills imperative.
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00:00:14I'm navigating through a dark tunnel, and it just keeps going, and it keeps going.
00:00:23That's what my life was at the time.
00:00:26Just a dark tunnel just keep going, and I couldn't see the end of it.
00:00:30I would stop sometime when there was some light, but then I would just continue down that dark tunnel.
00:00:40The only time I would get to the end is at the end of my day.
00:00:43I would go home and sleep and eat and then get ready for the next day of going through a
00:00:49dark tunnel.
00:00:51It didn't feel good to wake up to go to work.
00:00:54I wasn't happy about going to work.
00:00:57I wanted better for myself.
00:01:00Financial freedom, generational wealth, freedom in general, happiness.
00:01:09Those are the things that I'm looking for.
00:01:25Clearly the economy is slowing.
00:01:27We still think there is a significant supply shortages.
00:01:29We're seeing a uniquely volatile market.
00:01:32A slow dance into a recession.
00:01:34It's not just 10,000 jobs being cut.
00:01:37Inflation, one of the areas that's been hit the hardest is food.
00:01:4138% of people last year did not get the medical care they needed because it was too expensive.
00:01:46Talking about the issue of widespread homelessness.
00:01:48You know, the net worth of the median household is nothing, basically.
00:01:53But does it get to the root of the issue, which is rising tuition costs?
00:01:5643% of students that go to school today don't graduate at all.
00:02:00The entire system needs to be reinvented.
00:02:02We are in the middle of an AI arms race that heats up more and more every day.
00:02:07It does underscore how tight the labor market is.
00:02:25I don't understand.
00:02:27Okay, I can do this.
00:02:32Hi, my name is Megan Samson.
00:02:34I'm a software development student at EMA.
00:02:39Hi, my name is Megan Sampson.
00:02:41I'm an entrepreneur and software development student at Yara.
00:02:45Currently, I'm learning UX design.
00:02:48Oh, I'm assuming you want me to sit right here.
00:02:55All right.
00:03:01My name is Brianna Dyer.
00:03:04Where do you want me to actually look?
00:03:07Pretty much down the barrel.
00:03:08So you want straight to camera?
00:03:09Yeah, straight to camera.
00:03:11So you know if I take one soft sticks.
00:03:17I see all these opportunities, just like this street, right?
00:03:22As if this was an island.
00:03:24This building that we're adjacent to has so many companies in it.
00:03:30To them it just looks like all they have to do is cross the street.
00:03:33But there's a divider here.
00:03:37And for some folks, we don't see it.
00:03:39They don't see how there's a divide.
00:03:43For some of them it's like, just get it.
00:03:44It's here.
00:03:45It's out here.
00:03:46But there's a barrier that's stopping them from getting there.
00:03:50Once we as a culture understand what those barriers are, we can understand how there's an opportunity to divide.
00:03:59Imagine if we had an interview process that measured people for how long they traveled just to get to the
00:04:05starting point.
00:04:08There's a lot of people in this country who are not only born on the starting line, but were born
00:04:1250 yards down the road.
00:04:14Imagine if we could assess people on the journey they had to travel just to get to the place where
00:04:20they could be interviewed.
00:04:37So tell me a little bit about yourself, Megan.
00:04:40Well, I have been learning front-end, back-end, as well as data engineering and UX design.
00:04:46So that's a little about me.
00:04:49I'm interested in what you can offer as a front-end developer.
00:04:54Well, I'm very innovative and I work well with others.
00:04:58So I think that I can be a great part of your team.
00:05:01That's great.
00:05:02Any questions for me?
00:05:04Also, what is the day-in-day life of rocket science?
00:05:16Well, believe it or not, a lot of the work is remote.
00:05:18Well, um, I'll be in touch.
00:05:21Damn.
00:05:22Okay, I'll be in touch.
00:05:23All right.
00:05:24I'll be in touch.
00:05:26So, feedback for them.
00:05:28Feedback for our interviewee.
00:05:30Well, I feel like when you asked her, um, tell me about yourself, like, she's, I heard, like, an interviewer
00:05:34was supposed to, like, reiterate.
00:05:36Math kind of Walletese,oberse and gold.
00:05:46loads of women.
00:05:53Yet, you know, it just in time.
00:05:55That's great.
00:05:59Bye.
00:06:00Bye.
00:06:02Peace.
00:06:02Bye.
00:06:04Bye.
00:06:23We're in New York, the financial capital of the world.
00:06:32Some of you will show up to an internship site and you will think to yourself, no one
00:06:37in this room has had the same journey that I had.
00:06:44These people had it made already.
00:06:47They've got a degree from Harvard, Yale, Princeton.
00:06:50They've been here for a very long time.
00:06:52Their dad or their mom worked at this company.
00:06:55They live in some very nice neighborhood in Manhattan.
00:07:03The reality of it is, they wake up every morning, they've got to say to themselves, I'm going
00:07:11to show up and I'm going to be excellent.
00:07:13And the only thing that separates them from you, in most cases, is mindset.
00:07:27We have a system that really focuses on an extremely narrow set of pathways into decent,
00:07:36well-paying jobs at a time when there are more ways to learn how to do things than there
00:07:41ever have been before.
00:07:43I hear so often some version of, I know what I can do, but no one will give me a
00:07:49chance.
00:07:51But why does it have to be that way?
00:07:55We're now in a world where you've got 70 million people in this country who do have high school
00:08:02degrees.
00:08:02They have all sorts of skills, but they don't have college degrees.
00:08:06And they're being excluded from about 70% of the new jobs that are being created.
00:08:13You have the situation where you have the most opportunity that's ever existed, but it's hard
00:08:18to figure out which pathway gets you there.
00:08:20Sometimes the credential requirements don't really capture what is going to make someone
00:08:24successful in a job.
00:08:26Right now, there's about 7 million jobs that go unfilled because there aren't people that
00:08:30have the actual credentials to do them, but they may have the skills.
00:08:34We see that number beginning to grow exponentially.
00:08:38Closing that gap is what's going to allow us to have a better economy going forward.
00:08:44If American business doesn't figure out how to solve this opportunity gap, we're going to
00:08:49suffer.
00:08:50We won't grow as much.
00:08:51We won't be as successful.
00:08:53After all these years, most of us would be raising our hands saying,
00:08:56something isn't working.
00:08:57What can we do to fix it?
00:09:22I'm just getting ready.
00:09:29You want to wear your Minnie Mouse sweater?
00:09:33Yes.
00:09:33You want to do it all by yourself?
00:09:35Maybe.
00:09:35Maybe?
00:09:36Be careful.
00:09:38You can do this one.
00:09:44No.
00:09:45Keep holding your sleeve.
00:09:47Don't let it go.
00:09:59I've been working since I was 13.
00:10:03In high school, after school, on the weekends, that was one of my first ever jobs, cleaning.
00:10:13A lot of clients was in Manhattan, 52nd Street, 42nd Street, big buildings with doormans.
00:10:21And I was like, wow, mom, I want this.
00:10:30When we talk to the people that own these buildings, they're CEOs, senior advisors, and tech people.
00:10:43I want this.
00:10:44I want this lifestyle, and I have to work hard for it.
00:10:54Monday, business profession.
00:10:58Black or blue, button-up or blouse.
00:11:01If you want to do a blazer or a cardigan with it, you're more than welcome to.
00:11:05What's up, baby?
00:11:06Button-up or blouse.
00:11:08Blouse?
00:11:08Yeah.
00:11:09This is a blouse.
00:11:11This is a blouse.
00:11:13Oh, that's a blouse.
00:11:21So we kind of talked about this segment.
00:11:23What was that like?
00:11:23I saw a lot of people nodding their heads about
00:11:25if you've ever experienced this.
00:11:27So how does it make you feel?
00:11:29And why?
00:11:30For a lot of us, we're going into the corporate world
00:11:32the first time, so we don't know how to, like,
00:11:35maneuver this type of stuff.
00:11:36So we feel like we could be taking advantage.
00:11:38We don't know how to be a part of that system,
00:11:41how to, like, fit in,
00:11:43how to succeed in that environment.
00:11:46Mm-hmm. Anyone else?
00:11:48I got lucky at Nike at my first job
00:11:50because I've worked around people
00:11:51who wanted me to succeed and I trusted,
00:11:53so they would help me.
00:11:54They would really, really help me
00:11:56to understand corporate jargon.
00:11:58There was corporate hierarchy
00:11:59that you have to understand,
00:12:01reporting structures, you know,
00:12:03all of these things, org charts,
00:12:04that I had never even talked about
00:12:08or heard anyone talk about in my house.
00:12:10When you go into an environment like that,
00:12:11you're like the new kid at school.
00:12:15It goes way even before, like, who you know.
00:12:17It's like where you're born.
00:12:19Ask them, the kids here who come from the inner cities,
00:12:21what it's like to walk into this building.
00:12:23That's got to be like a whole different world.
00:12:27You know, the plush carpets and the big desks
00:12:29and stuff like that.
00:12:31Like, I had never been in a corporate,
00:12:33I had never met a CEO until I finally met one,
00:12:36probably my last year of college
00:12:38or something like that.
00:12:39So I think I was still a little privileged.
00:12:41You know, I had great parents, you know,
00:12:43I went to a nice college and all that,
00:12:44and, you know, that gives you a leg up on life.
00:12:47In this country today, I can predict
00:12:50whether you're going to go to college
00:12:52and get a four-year degree
00:12:54more by your bank balance than your SAT score.
00:12:58That's a fundamental challenge in our country.
00:13:18A friend that told me about the program,
00:13:20he was one of the first people I saw
00:13:22that was in the corporate world.
00:13:26And, you know, he wore slacks and shoes to work.
00:13:31Where he worked did not provide a uniform for him.
00:13:34You know, that's a difference for sure.
00:13:39My fursuits, I bought two for $99.
00:13:42They were polyester.
00:13:43Literally, they're in the landfill somewhere
00:13:46standing up on their own.
00:13:47But beyond that, I bought everything used.
00:13:51My first dress shirt, used.
00:13:53First tie, used.
00:13:55Belt, used.
00:13:56Socks, I bought those new.
00:13:58I didn't care if it was new or used, right?
00:14:01My interviewer didn't care if it was new or used.
00:14:04I just wanted the job.
00:14:18The first few years of working, I realized for me to prove myself
00:14:23and for me to move up the ranks, everyone has to start at the bottom.
00:14:30My philosophy was, whatever job I was in, at any given point in time, I just focused on crushing that
00:14:38job.
00:14:39And if you crush that job and you do great work, you will be noticed and your career trajectory will
00:14:45take care of itself.
00:14:52We have participants who are coming out of a pandemic.
00:14:57I have participants who spent their last few years of high school behind a computer screen.
00:15:04People haven't even been sitting next to each other, let alone engaging physically with one another.
00:15:11Handshake is confidence.
00:15:12Like, that is truly, like, the embodiment of that moment that lays the groundwork for how you build.
00:15:21I always say a big part of being an entrepreneur, but also just being a part of working, like working
00:15:27in the world, is you have to be user-friendly.
00:15:29And that starts with the very first time you meet someone.
00:15:33Being a great listener is a thing that will set you apart right away.
00:15:37So if you ask someone how they're doing, actually listen to what they say, looking them in the face.
00:15:42It all matters, and that first impression is what sets you up for people to know if you're going to
00:15:48be user-friendly.
00:16:00It's just from scratch again, meeting new people.
00:16:08I just am not confident in myself that much right now in the tech world.
00:16:12Because it's not just like a school environment where you can just go up to people and talk randomly.
00:16:17You kind of have to prepare yourself in a professional way.
00:16:21Because of my English, I did not think that I was enough to go out and talk or to present.
00:16:31I kind of think in Turkish and it comes out in English, so it doesn't match every time what I
00:16:36want to say in my head.
00:16:39Deep down, I just feel like I can do more.
00:16:41So I think that gives me pressure on myself.
00:16:50Sometimes we go into these environments and we put so much pressure over thinking what it is.
00:16:56It is a conversation.
00:16:59When I'm having a conversation with you, what is one thing that I need to make sure I'm doing?
00:17:05Interacting.
00:17:06Interacting. Thank you.
00:17:07Do not create an atmosphere where folks are just asking you all the questions, right?
00:17:12Because now we are not having a conversation.
00:17:16I sometimes do not like making eye contact, but I am fully engaged to the conversation.
00:17:22Looking someone directly in the eye, it gives like a form, I don't want to say intimacy, but it feels
00:17:31like it and I don't really do well with that.
00:17:37With my mom, we talk and she hears me and I hear her and I think that we communicate well
00:17:44that way.
00:17:46But in corporate America, people do look you in your face when they are speaking and they are expecting that
00:17:52back.
00:17:52So it is something that I have recently realized that I need to work on.
00:17:57I feel like that is part of being professional, showing that you are a tentative.
00:18:14Once I cross the bridge, right, I have a sense of like professionalism, confidence, courage.
00:18:21When you get off the train over here, there's like an energy of professional commute.
00:18:26Like everyone's on that hustle.
00:18:28And so it almost like propels you into that mindset of like, I'm hungry for it.
00:18:34I'm ready. I'm energized.
00:18:37The mindset of the students has to shift when they get here.
00:18:41They have to push past a fear.
00:18:43They have to push past a doubt or a question and say like, I deserve to be in this mega
00:18:48space, in this space also.
00:18:49So that's room for me.
00:19:00That was hilarious though.
00:19:07How are you mister?
00:19:14Oh, you're being productive.
00:19:15Okay, so I don't see any final project.
00:19:18Help me understand what's going on.
00:19:21Um...
00:19:21You have three final projects due tomorrow.
00:19:24Uh-huh.
00:19:24I haven't done any.
00:19:25Yeah, uh...
00:19:26Is there a reason why?
00:19:28Uh...
00:19:29Well, my mom had to take a business trip, so I had to take care of my sisters.
00:19:34Okay.
00:19:34And she also has a business that I had to take care of.
00:19:36Okay.
00:19:37Which like, got in, you know, cut into the time that I should have been coding, which is why this
00:19:41week I wasn't really on top of my labs.
00:19:45Okay.
00:19:45As you can see, I had like two missing labs this week.
00:19:47So, with that said, um, do you understand the requirements in the final project?
00:19:54Uh, yeah, yeah, I do.
00:19:55So, I want to see...
00:20:01The young man I was interviewing for our program.
00:20:05And I looked at his high school transcript.
00:20:09And I remember saying, why are you gonna come to Europe and be successful and to be on time?
00:20:16You've been late 56 days.
00:20:19And he said, you know, Gerald, let me tell you.
00:20:22I live on my own.
00:20:23Therefore, I have to pay for my own food and my own rent.
00:20:26I got a job at Starbucks.
00:20:29And it started at 5 a.m.
00:20:31And I could work till 8 a.m. every morning.
00:20:34And I had to finish that job and run to high school to try to be on time, but it
00:20:39was really, really hard.
00:20:40And therefore, I was late a lot.
00:20:43It's not because I'm not a capable person.
00:20:46It's not because I don't want to be on time.
00:20:49I had to feed myself.
00:20:53And that job from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. was what kept me alive.
00:20:57And yes, it meant I couldn't get to school on time every day.
00:21:01But that doesn't mean I'm not capable.
00:21:05I was never a good student in high school.
00:21:08And if you're not a good student in high school,
00:21:10then people are going to dictate how you're going to do in college.
00:21:14So you're already, basically, you have a life already ahead of you.
00:21:19If you don't do good in high school, you're going to suck at college.
00:21:21If you suck at college, you're going to suck in life.
00:21:24You know, not everybody in this world has to go to college.
00:21:28You know who didn't go to college?
00:21:30Einstein.
00:21:32Thomas Edison.
00:21:35Frank.
00:21:36Frank.
00:21:37Frank who?
00:21:38The dude who pumps my gas.
00:21:40We've somehow got this idea in a lot of elements of elite culture in the media
00:21:45that you have to have a bachelor's degree.
00:21:48Society has rules.
00:21:50And the first rule is, you go to college.
00:21:53You want to have a happy and successful life?
00:21:54You go to college.
00:21:56If you want to fit in, you go to college.
00:21:58I enrolled in island community college.
00:22:01College?
00:22:02Real college?
00:22:03Oh, Lou Ann, you are dreaming with the big boys now.
00:22:06We're talking six figures each.
00:22:08That's a very generous offer, Mr. Hampton, but no.
00:22:11Malcolm's going to college.
00:22:12You're going to get a college education first.
00:22:15He knows what he wants to do, and he's in a good college.
00:22:17College.
00:22:18And that's ridiculous.
00:22:20When almost no one had bachelor's degrees in this country, we built the Empire State Building in nine months.
00:22:27In fact, 95% of the civilization around us was built by people without bachelor's degrees.
00:22:35As early as 1909, only 9% of Americans went to high school.
00:22:41But by 1939, 79% of American teenagers were going to high school.
00:22:46And the reason it happened is because communities across the country wanted to see their children be able to get
00:22:53what you would then call the jobs of the future.
00:22:56Secretaries.
00:22:57Telegraph operators.
00:22:58It might be to work in a car factory.
00:23:01There were all of these new jobs that were better jobs than that people wanted.
00:23:06And high schools were a mass movement that allowed people to get those broad-based skills for those jobs.
00:23:12World War II came.
00:23:13The GI Bill came.
00:23:15Now you started having mass college education.
00:23:18You know, you need more doctors, you need more nurses, you need more engineers.
00:23:21But then sometime around the early 80s, there was this report that came out, this presidential commission called A Nation
00:23:26at Risk.
00:23:27You've taken a long, hard look at America's educational system and found that quality is lacking.
00:23:34And one of the things it said is that our high schools are a disaster because they weren't preparing students
00:23:39to succeed in college.
00:23:41But of course, our high schools were never designed to help students succeed at college.
00:23:45They were designed to help students succeed at life.
00:23:48Throughout the 80s and the 90s in our country, we began a rhetoric that said everyone must go to college.
00:23:55That college-for-all mentality.
00:23:56Some of the success of these people isn't because they went to university. It's because they already grew up well,
00:24:02they were already educated, they went to good high schools, they went to college, and that's good enough to get
00:24:06a lot of starting jobs.
00:24:07We want college to be a bridge to opportunity. But what we don't want is for college to become a
00:24:13drawbridge that you pull up and everybody who doesn't get across it is on the outside looking in.
00:24:19The latest economic snapshot shows a staggering increase in the number of people who have lost their jobs. The nation's
00:24:26unemployment rate bolted to a 14-year high.
00:24:30In 2008 with the recession, we saw many people out of employment. At that point, employers were in a very
00:24:38powerful position.
00:24:40They could be picky about who they wanted to hire, when they wanted to hire them, and how they wanted
00:24:46them to work.
00:24:47In 2008, you also saw the rise of the internet and applying on jobs en masse. The good thing about
00:24:54that is that it made accessing jobs and applying for them widely available.
00:24:58But on the other hand, it poses a problem for HR departments, a real problem, which is before maybe 35,
00:25:0540 people applied for your job.
00:25:07Now you get, let's say, 400 applications or 800 applications. Well, you can't really go through 400 or 800 applications.
00:25:14Well, how do you sort those out? What filters do you use? What switches to say, yes, I'll speak with
00:25:20you or look at you and no, I won't?
00:25:22A very easy switch to pull is do you have a four-year degree or don't you?
00:25:27It became a sorting mechanism. In fact, a pretty inelegant sorting mechanism.
00:25:32Now you have a computer that's screening people out versus screening them in.
00:25:38Would I prefer my kids to go to college or not go to college? I say the same to them
00:25:42as I say to anybody.
00:25:43I really think going to college is a good idea. I think learning how to learn is one of the
00:25:48greatest skills you can have.
00:25:49But at the same time, it's not for everybody.
00:25:52It's not just about the education you get. It's the experience you get.
00:25:57I made a decision to leave a four-year university to go to a two-year technical school.
00:26:02I don't know if I would have ever got into the technical industry if I didn't make that decision in
00:26:07that transition.
00:26:09Education is a lifelong thing. It's not something that you go to four years of college and somehow you're fully
00:26:14prepared for what the world is going to demand from you in 20 years. You're not.
00:26:18It's not about college. It's really about skills.
00:26:20When you're hiring someone, presumably you're hiring them because you think they can do certain things.
00:26:25If I'm not choosing the person based on the degree, but based on an authentic assessment of what skills they
00:26:32have, you as an employer are going to get exactly what you want.
00:26:35In fact, it's been proven that if you hire for skills, that is five times more predictive of your future
00:26:43success than if you purely hire for degrees.
00:26:46Step one is going to be you're going to take this apart. You have some tools in front of you
00:26:52and you're going to take apart the chassis from the computer and you're going to remove hard drive, remove motherboard,
00:27:03power supply from the device.
00:27:05Because if I'm your boss and I give you a month to do something and you don't do it, you
00:27:10might not have a job next week. I want you all to be able to fly through.
00:27:14So, go ahead.
00:27:17You want to take the panel off?
00:27:19Yeah, we can do that.
00:27:21Okay, this one we can take off. I could just take this one off.
00:27:25Oh, I see. We need a star point.
00:27:28Actually, let me just open this so we can see what else is underneath.
00:27:31Okay, so now we can take this off.
00:27:33We can, like, flip it exactly.
00:27:36How do we assess people in different ways so that we can recognize and understand the skills that they actually
00:27:42come with beyond having a degree?
00:27:45I think we have to take it upon ourselves to widen the aperture of who we can hire and then
00:27:50provide that training as people join the company.
00:27:53Now we're going to do the reverse, put everything back together.
00:27:56There we go.
00:28:00There we go.
00:28:02It's the same thing. It just flips.
00:28:04Ha-ha!
00:28:05You did it!
00:28:06Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
00:28:08Oh, so this is going to come out of here.
00:28:09It's a hard drive.
00:28:10Here we go.
00:28:11Oh, no, that's actually good.
00:28:12Perfect.
00:28:12I got it.
00:28:14There we go.
00:28:16There we go.
00:28:17You guys got it?
00:28:17I guess.
00:28:19There it goes.
00:28:20All right.
00:28:21All right.
00:28:21What's up, guys?
00:28:24It's good.
00:28:26All right.
00:28:28There are different types of skills that are needed to thrive in a corporate environment and to take on more
00:28:34responsibility.
00:28:34There are the hard skills, things that we think of related to retail basics or retail math if you're at
00:28:40Walmart.
00:28:41And then there are these things that some people call soft skills, things like empathy, things like the ability to
00:28:46listen and apply what you learn and grow.
00:28:49Did you earn people's trust?
00:28:51When you speak, do you speak with clarity?
00:28:54Do you treat people respectfully, like showing up on time is respectful?
00:28:58At Workday, my co-founder Dave and I interviewed the first 500 people.
00:29:02What we really dug into was whether they had the personal characteristics to be successful.
00:29:07Characteristics like integrity, teamwork, working hard, knowing how to interact with folks in a business setting, making sure that you're
00:29:15constantly learning.
00:29:16All those things sound like soft skills, but I think they're essential.
00:29:32If you're on the train for 40 minutes every morning and 40 minutes every night, that time to yourself is
00:29:39incredibly valuable.
00:29:40I always tried to listen to something motivational or educational.
00:29:44You know, back in the day, I would listen to this guy, Zig Ziglar, and I would drive around looking
00:29:49at big houses trying to get all fired up.
00:29:52You know, I would listen to educational tapes.
00:29:54I was trying to teach myself different things because I knew I had a lot to learn.
00:29:58If you're able to take that downtime and be disciplined enough to use that to teach yourself something, you're going
00:30:06to get ahead.
00:30:17Very first day, very first boot camp, he said, pull out your laptop and make a website using like HTML,
00:30:23CSS.
00:30:25Everyone else is like coding their life's way.
00:30:27And the first thing I said, I said, what is HTML and what is CSS?
00:30:30I didn't know what I was doing on day one.
00:30:32With me, it's always like the fear of not being enough of anything.
00:30:38Yeah, honestly, I feel like it's always, what's that word?
00:30:43Imposter syndrome.
00:30:45Yes, that's a good one.
00:30:45Yes.
00:30:46So, well, I mean, I don't know if any of you know, but I wasn't born here.
00:30:49I was born in South America.
00:30:51Honestly, I felt very nerve wracking because I'm not really good at meeting new people or interacting with people.
00:30:58And I feel like when I joined the program, it was like that.
00:31:01Do you think you belong here right now?
00:31:03Um, I don't know. I feel like.
00:31:10Coding is your thing.
00:31:12Yeah, it is. It is. So.
00:31:17You hear that phrase, imposter syndrome a lot.
00:31:21Our company makes film and TV, but I'm no filmmaker.
00:31:25I'm no set designer.
00:31:27We are going to do a tower building activity.
00:31:30So let's all stand.
00:31:32I used to get it when I would go, oh, man, I'm gonna walk in this room.
00:31:35And they gonna start talking about the set for this show or this movie.
00:31:39And they're gonna realize, I don't know what I'm doing.
00:31:45But the key in that moment is to lean back into myself and go, okay, but if I think I
00:31:50need to know.
00:31:51Okay, wait, what are we doing?
00:31:53Ask the question.
00:31:55The best person in the room is the person who can admit what they don't know.
00:32:01The tower must be three feet tall.
00:32:06When I was a new engineer joining General Motors, I didn't exactly know how to do everything.
00:32:11We need a structure first.
00:32:13You thought of it?
00:32:14Like putting the markets inside.
00:32:15I can't tell you how many times I leaned over to the person next to me and said,
00:32:19Hey, I'm dealing with this situation. Have you ever seen this before?
00:32:22Do you have any suggestions of what's the best way to handle this?
00:32:25That didn't work.
00:32:26They're just gonna flop.
00:32:28It's important for people to spend time together to collaborate.
00:32:32Nah, hold on, hold on.
00:32:33Lock it.
00:32:34All right.
00:32:36Oh, God.
00:32:38I told y'all.
00:32:39Hold on, hold on.
00:32:43It didn't fall.
00:32:45It didn't fall.
00:32:46It didn't fall.
00:32:46It didn't fall.
00:32:50One.
00:32:51This is the DNS server, but this is the DHCP on the DNS server.
00:32:55So, yeah.
00:32:56You gotta turn it on first.
00:32:57You gotta make sure you turn it on.
00:32:57Oh, on.
00:32:59172.
00:33:00It's still not working.
00:33:04By the time I was in the Obama administration, I've been working, sure, with high-level people for 20 years,
00:33:09and I felt a little more comfortable.
00:33:12Though, of course, every new environment you go into, there's a whole new vernacular, a whole new set of assumptions.
00:33:16Now it's working.
00:33:18I think a lot of times you think the safest thing is not to speak up.
00:33:22But I actually discovered that that's not really the safest thing.
00:33:27Trust your judgment, because your judgment is bringing something to the table.
00:33:46Lamia is a participant who is carrying quite a lot on her shoulders.
00:33:54She's got a lot of responsibility at home.
00:33:57She's got a lot of responsibility to her family and to herself.
00:34:00She also has big expectations of herself.
00:34:03I think Lamia knows that she can go really far.
00:34:07She's not looking for a place that's gonna see her as one in a hundred.
00:34:16So when was the last time we were here?
00:34:18Definitely several months ago.
00:34:20We, you...
00:34:21Our cousin, yeah.
00:34:21Yeah.
00:34:22So how's it been, like, so far?
00:34:25How are you feeling about internships and everything?
00:34:28I don't know.
00:34:29I'm a little nervous.
00:34:30And, you know, us being, like, both head of household and, like, well, you're head of household.
00:34:34But me, like, helping and support the family, like...
00:34:37Right, right, right.
00:34:37It's been hard.
00:34:38I'm tired of, like, spreading myself thin and, like, working so many...
00:34:41Like, yesterday I worked, like, from four to nine.
00:34:43And then, like, in the morning I had my other job.
00:34:45Oh, my God.
00:34:46So it's, like, it's a lot.
00:34:47So I'm a little nervous.
00:34:49Like, I hope to be found in a place where I can be financially stable.
00:34:52Yeah.
00:34:53With one job and, like, have this, like, be my career trajectory.
00:34:56Yeah.
00:35:01I usually work from, like, five to ten or, like, four to nine.
00:35:05Then I come home and, like, I have to finish my deliverables.
00:35:08Like, I'm kind of sick, like, physically sick.
00:35:11My body can't take this anymore.
00:35:12Like, I need to rest.
00:35:15It was, like, the final stretch.
00:35:18I want to get somewhere where I feel like I'm comfortable
00:35:20or, like, have financial independence.
00:35:30All right, all right.
00:35:31Get your backpack.
00:35:35This is your second time around here.
00:35:37Okay.
00:35:40What's two times the charm been like?
00:35:43Um, the first time I had a lot of family issues.
00:35:48I had to leave so I can get a job.
00:35:51It was a sales job.
00:35:53But in the midst of it, I realized that I can't continue.
00:35:56Like, I don't want to be 30 and I don't have a stable career for myself.
00:36:00So, now it's a different ballgame.
00:36:03I have to finish it.
00:36:04There's no option.
00:36:05There's no dropout.
00:36:08I'll work through it because there's no other option for me.
00:36:14When your back's against the wall, you've got only one direction to go.
00:36:22And that power of broke propels people.
00:36:25It motivates them.
00:36:26It incents them to get out and just do what you need to do to get where you want to
00:36:31get.
00:36:34Putting in the effort, that's grit.
00:36:36And that grittiness is incredibly important.
00:36:42It's never a straight line.
00:36:44There's no easy path.
00:36:47My dad did upholstery on cars.
00:36:49My mom did odd jobs.
00:36:50Neither had gone to college.
00:36:51Didn't have a lot of money.
00:36:55I started selling when I was 12 years old.
00:36:57I was selling garbage bags door to door.
00:37:01Hi.
00:37:02My name is Mark.
00:37:04Do you use garbage bags?
00:37:06I did whatever I had to do.
00:37:08I didn't think I'd be in this situation.
00:37:11I just wanted to get ahead.
00:37:13I just wanted to be where I could control my own destiny.
00:37:19Everything is at stake.
00:37:22This impacts generations.
00:37:25Generations before, generations after.
00:37:28There's students who have now the opportunity to take their parents and their families out of neighborhoods and put them
00:37:33in homes.
00:37:34This is past just a job for you.
00:37:37Just as past just opening the door.
00:37:39If you are going down in one direction and you have the opportunity to make a hard turn.
00:37:46To change the course of your life.
00:37:49For you it might just be a small turn.
00:37:52But for the generations that come behind you, it's going to be a significantly different situation.
00:38:07So continue to grow through the process.
00:38:10This is not mastery again.
00:38:12And what are interviews, eh?
00:38:15Conversation.
00:38:16Just that.
00:38:17You have meet and greet soon.
00:38:19Do not oversell yourself.
00:38:21Don't look at your watch.
00:38:23Be sure that you're not restating your resume.
00:38:25Don't brag.
00:38:26Remember humility.
00:38:27Do not leave the interview without asking for some form of communication from them.
00:38:32Yeah?
00:38:33Comfortable?
00:38:35All right.
00:38:36Let's practice.
00:38:41Interviewing feels like one of the most high stakes environments you can be in.
00:38:47People make a decision in the first 30 seconds of the interview about you and then spend the rest of
00:38:52the interview justifying that decision that they've made.
00:38:56Hi.
00:38:56Hi.
00:38:57Lamia.
00:38:58Can you hear me?
00:38:59Yes.
00:39:00Yeah, like, welcome to Blobby.
00:39:02Just, no, I just say hey.
00:39:04Hey?
00:39:05Very professional.
00:39:06Do your homework.
00:39:07Be prepared.
00:39:08Do some research on the company.
00:39:10You need to be really thoughtful, you need to prepare, and then you need to present yourself very professionally.
00:39:15Hello.
00:39:16Welcome to your interview.
00:39:18Hello.
00:39:18Lamia.
00:39:19It's nice to meet you.
00:39:20Zane Richards.
00:39:20You know, when you walk into a job interview immediately, you're thinking about being judged.
00:39:24Even before you get there, you're like, what am I going to wear?
00:39:26You know, how does my hair look?
00:39:28What's on this resume that I have?
00:39:30How am I going to explain my experiences?
00:39:33Will they like me?
00:39:35Will they think that it's enough?
00:39:38We psych ourselves out.
00:39:40Hey, no need to be nervous.
00:39:41I'll never forget the first time I was with their career counselor and they had taped me in an interview.
00:39:46And I thought I did a pretty good job.
00:39:48And when they showed me the video back, you know, I kept saying, um.
00:39:51Um.
00:39:52Um.
00:39:53Um.
00:39:53When I was thinking, my eyes would roll up.
00:39:56I had no idea that that was even happening.
00:39:59Everyone has their strengths.
00:40:01I may be stronger in a certain area.
00:40:03I may be weaker in another one.
00:40:05I suck at interviewing.
00:40:06I mean, I am the world's worst interviewer.
00:40:10Yeah, I learned a long time ago, never let Mark interview.
00:40:13Make sure that the people that you're talking to, they know that you're really interested in the company.
00:40:19And one of the questions I always ask people is, why GM?
00:40:21Why are you interested in GM?
00:40:23And think about that.
00:40:25Because if it's just, hey, I'm just trying to get a job.
00:40:28That's very different than, I want to work for this company for these reasons.
00:40:31And I've heard there is many opportunities for growth in your company.
00:40:34Um.
00:40:35And that's what I'm looking for.
00:40:36I'm looking for a company that is committed to the development of their employees.
00:40:40When you talk to most hiring managers, what they really want to know is they really want to know you.
00:40:44They want to know you beyond the paper.
00:40:47The technical part is just a check in the box.
00:40:51They're always going to get candidates that have the skills already.
00:40:54So you want to think about the things that make you different.
00:40:57For example, I played a cello.
00:40:58I've been doing that for 30 years and my first language is Spanish.
00:41:01A lot of people wouldn't know that.
00:41:03Right?
00:41:03That's different.
00:41:04Everything that you think is weird about you is probably your superpower and what you want to double down on.
00:41:10Before I even start anything, I first want to fully understand what the program should do and how it should
00:41:15run.
00:41:16When I'm interviewing people, I try to get to know them as people and understand what kind of leader they're
00:41:21going to be.
00:41:22How they're going to inspire others.
00:41:24If they're going to help further our values and culture of the company.
00:41:27So I'm really focused on who is this person.
00:41:30Thank you for your time.
00:41:32Um, I really enjoyed hearing about the company and I'm looking forward to hearing back.
00:41:37Do you have any questions for me?
00:41:39Do you have any questions for me?
00:41:40No, thank you for having me.
00:41:41We'll keep in touch.
00:41:42Bye.
00:41:43Have a great day.
00:41:43It was really great to meet you, Jane.
00:41:45Great to meet you, too.
00:41:46You will be hearing from us very soon.
00:41:47Thank you. Appreciate it.
00:41:48I will.
00:41:48Bye.
00:41:48Please.
00:41:48Bye.
00:41:49Bye.
00:41:49Bye.
00:41:49Monday, we're having some fun.
00:42:03Please.
00:42:05All right.
00:42:08Bye.
00:42:09Bye.
00:42:22Hey, good morning, everyone.
00:42:24Today I'm going to be talking a little bit about my U.R. plans.
00:42:29I hope to show you the number of internship.
00:42:34My first role in our home office after coming out of our stores was as a buyer trainee,
00:42:39and I was responsible for a big part of our fishing tackle business.
00:42:44I didn't know anything about fishing.
00:42:48And my supervisor said, on Saturday, we've got a meeting,
00:42:51and you need to show the company that you've reduced the price on an item.
00:42:57Good morning, everyone.
00:42:59Well, that was Monday, and that was Saturday,
00:43:01and I didn't have the first clue of what to do.
00:43:04Thank you so much for being here.
00:43:06I'm very excited to learn or continue to hone my skills.
00:43:11On that Saturday morning, I got to stand up and, with a shaky voice and a shaky hand,
00:43:16tell Sam Walton about an item that you spray on a hard lure that's supposed to make a fish
00:43:21think it's a live animal and strike the bait.
00:43:24I'm assuming it'll probably be my journey post-Europe as well.
00:43:29And after I described the lower price and everything else,
00:43:31Sam said, that's all well and good, son, but what makes you think fish can smell?
00:43:36To which I had no answer.
00:43:37Everyone laughed, and I just went and sat down.
00:43:39Can I ask one follow-up question?
00:43:40Yes, of course.
00:43:41You've got that anxiety inside, and you just have to overcome it,
00:43:45remembering to breathe, remembering to listen.
00:43:47Well, thank you for the question, Macho.
00:43:49I think that's a very great question.
00:43:51I still feel some of that today, but I certainly felt it back then.
00:43:55Thank you so much, guys.
00:43:58That was a tough first week, but we made it through.
00:44:05I'm super stressed because, number one, I don't know how I'm going to, like, behave on the first day.
00:44:10By behave, I mean, like, what do I wear?
00:44:12What do I do?
00:44:12How do I talk?
00:44:13How do I, like, who do I eat lunch with?
00:44:16It's like...
00:44:16People.
00:44:19Yeah, no, I agree with you.
00:44:21Thank you on this.
00:44:21Honestly, like, I was really scared at first, and a bit sad because, you know,
00:44:25we got so used to coming here and, like, meeting, you know, our friends and, you know, learning.
00:44:31However, actually, I had a really nice conversation with Brianna.
00:44:34She told me how sometimes it's good to hold on to things, but also you grow out of things.
00:44:41And I feel like this program has taught us a lot that it's time to grow out of it.
00:44:47Okay.
00:44:49So, interesting speech, right?
00:44:51Was his speech perfect?
00:44:53No.
00:44:54It was good.
00:44:56It was good, but was it perfect?
00:44:59If you notice, he slightly stumbled over a word.
00:45:04He caught himself, fixed it, and moved on.
00:45:08That's the art of public speaking.
00:45:16After high school, I couldn't go to college, nor could I get a good-paying job, so I started
00:45:21construction that would pay me cash.
00:45:26The very first day, they had me carry up, like, boarding drywall.
00:45:32It was so exhausting, and at the end of the day, I just felt like, I felt like there was,
00:45:37I could do something more with this life.
00:45:45I'm one of the lucky people who finally found something that they're good at and that they love, and I
00:45:53just can't see myself doing anything else besides programming.
00:45:58It's all up to me.
00:46:00It's all up to me.
00:46:01It's not going to change unless I want it to change.
00:46:04So that really drives me to try and do the best that I can.
00:46:12So now, to walk us through the full stack, we have Bilal and Nandar.
00:46:20Public speaking skills are incredibly important skills.
00:46:26And it's all about practice.
00:46:30Say that speech ten times, in your basement, in your bathroom, wherever you are.
00:46:35Get comfortable with it.
00:46:38People think public speakers were born.
00:46:41Public speakers just practice.
00:46:46Going into corporate America or going into a job or a company, you have to go into it knowing that
00:46:53you can execute and get what they want done.
00:46:55Because if you don't have that confidence, the people within the company who you need to work with will see
00:47:01it quickly, and they make assumptions.
00:47:03Doesn't get it, shouldn't work here, and they'll move on.
00:47:07So we're going to first start off with what is full stack development.
00:47:10It is basically everything from the front to the back end.
00:47:14The front end consists of a web page, typically from HTML and CSS.
00:47:21And then you also have the back end, which would be, think of it like the machine of the application.
00:47:26It's important to always have and show and let people know your conference without being cocky or overpairing.
00:47:34It's very, very important to do that because you want, again, the people at the company to want to work
00:47:40with you.
00:47:48Safety panels, fire safety panels.
00:47:50I learned how to wire up surround sound system.
00:47:53I was like, see, this is what I'm going to use in my real life.
00:47:55I'm going to hook my living room up.
00:47:58I think you're a good conversationalist in that he can, yeah, he goes into quiet spaces.
00:48:02He makes people feel comfortable to speak.
00:48:04I realize that.
00:48:05You don't think that about yourself?
00:48:06Yeah.
00:48:07I think very little of myself.
00:48:08Oh, that's not...
00:48:09No, you don't, Zade.
00:48:10You have a lot of confidence.
00:48:11No, I do fake it.
00:48:15No, I do.
00:48:16I have confidence, but there's some things I still be like, yeah, I can do better at this.
00:48:21Well, I think there's always room for improvement for everyone.
00:48:23Yeah.
00:48:24I think you are a good person.
00:48:25He'll walk and he'll be like, good morning, everyone.
00:48:27Like, who is this loud boy in my ear?
00:48:29Oh, it's Zane.
00:48:30Like, you know?
00:48:31Who is this loud?
00:48:32Loud.
00:48:33I didn't know it was loud.
00:48:34Well, it's okay, though.
00:48:35You have, I think, a commanding voice.
00:48:37Oh, thank you.
00:48:37Yeah.
00:48:38That's good.
00:48:38That's something...
00:48:39You have a way to bring people together.
00:48:40Really?
00:48:41There we go.
00:48:41Yeah, he does.
00:48:42I just thought of being able to do that here.
00:48:44Really?
00:48:45Yeah.
00:48:46Good job.
00:48:48Thank you, guys.
00:48:48I appreciate it.
00:48:49Yeah, of course.
00:48:50These softer skills, also sometimes known as EQ, I find to be just as important as IQ.
00:48:58Being authentic, being humble, being grounded.
00:49:02Empathy is really important.
00:49:04Caring for others.
00:49:06You get this through experience.
00:49:08You get this from engaging with others.
00:49:11You get this from watching what the best people do, and you take the best of all that and incorporate
00:49:16it into your leadership style.
00:49:31I'm in here most of my time.
00:49:36I needed to find something outside of MTA that worked my brain, that was challenging, so that I can just
00:49:43have something to do instead of just waiting for the next time I had to go into work.
00:49:49What's good, y'all?
00:49:50It's your boy One Day, back again with another video, trying some new things out.
00:49:53This is your first time being here.
00:49:55Share like...
00:49:57During the pandemic, I was the only one working.
00:50:00My wife was at home, holding down the fort, and I was the one that was holding it down financially.
00:50:08Now the roles have switched, and she was like, you did your time at MTA, and you were miserable.
00:50:14It's my turn now to take care of things financially while you go out and do what you need to
00:50:19do to be better.
00:50:25I don't have children yet, but I've been thinking about them for years.
00:50:32I did not want to have a baby while working at MTA.
00:50:36Because of how tired I was all the time and how I just was not happy, way happier now.
00:50:42But the financial part hasn't come back yet, so this is pretty much phase one on our plan.
00:50:47And be happy, get through this, and then get the well-paying job that, you know, children, children need.
00:51:11Good morning.
00:51:12Good morning.
00:51:13Nice to see you again.
00:51:14How are you doing?
00:51:15Good morning.
00:51:16Everybody sit, though.
00:51:17Yeah, yeah.
00:51:18Everybody sit.
00:51:18Watch your move.
00:51:20Nice to see you.
00:51:20You're fine.
00:51:21Yeah.
00:51:22Good time.
00:51:23Good to see you.
00:51:25Good to see you.
00:51:26Good to see you, too.
00:51:27Okay.
00:51:27So we're ready when you are.
00:51:28All right.
00:51:31Okay, good morning.
00:51:33My name is Zane Richards.
00:51:34I'm a part of the IT track at Year Up.
00:51:38The thought process used to be, I've never done this before.
00:51:41I don't think I'm going to be able to do it, or I don't think I'm going to be able
00:51:45to succeed.
00:51:46With technical support, troubleshooting skills and communication skills go hand in hand.
00:51:52My thought process now is, okay, I'm going to try my best, and if I don't succeed, I'm going to
00:51:59learn from it, and then I'll be able to apply it later.
00:52:02That's something that I understand way more now.
00:52:04Honestly, it was just a whole bunch of numbers to me, and it was like, I don't know how to
00:52:08make sense of this.
00:52:10Giving yourself the space to fail, like, that's a big deal.
00:52:15And I remember hearing that from managers as I was coming through the ranks, and I didn't get it until
00:52:20later.
00:52:20And I couldn't say that before.
00:52:22Five, six years ago, I was still in a space where I felt like, if I felt a question was,
00:52:28quote, unquote, stupid or not smart, then I wouldn't ask it.
00:52:33But now I'm in a space, and I was like, I don't care.
00:52:35If I want to know the information, I'm going to ask the question.
00:52:38Unless you are willing to take a bit of a risk, it's hard for you to get to the next
00:52:43level.
00:52:43It's hard for you to learn anything.
00:52:45You have to be able to risk not being able to do it to actually learn it.
00:52:50I also have some feedback I can share with you.
00:52:53Okay, great.
00:52:54I love feedback.
00:52:55So, I loved...
00:52:56To succeed in corporate America, they're going to have to be willing to fail, to ask questions, to not know
00:53:02the answer, and to be vulnerable.
00:53:12I need to believe in myself first.
00:53:14Like, I cannot expect anyone to believe in me and my capabilities and what I'm going to do.
00:53:19So, if I do it first, and then...
00:53:21And it did.
00:53:22So, my family, everyone around me was like, okay, you're doing this.
00:53:25Okay.
00:53:27So, yeah.
00:53:27Can I ask, like, it's a little bit different because I personally don't have kids yet.
00:53:31So, when I'm planning my goals, I'm really just thinking about myself.
00:53:34How is it kind of different for you that you do have a child?
00:53:36That's a good question.
00:53:37How is it kind of just planning on your life?
00:53:38Well, literally everything that I do, every decision that I make, it is based on her future.
00:53:44So, all of my goals is based on when you get older, you're going to be good.
00:53:51If I fail, I don't feel like I'm just failing myself.
00:53:55Like, I'm failing everyone that believes in me.
00:53:59And that, even though that's a heavy burden to put on your shoulder, but that's what keeps me motivated.
00:54:05My mom, and my daughter, and my grandmother, and that's who's in America, but if you're going to my family
00:54:12in Trinidad,
00:54:12you have my cousins, and my uncles, and my nieces, and my nephews.
00:54:16They're all rooting for us in America to, like, try to be able to help them.
00:54:34It helps me enunciate my words a little better and loosen up my body or my mouth that I'm too
00:54:42tight so that I'm ready to talk.
00:54:45I feel like the first five seconds someone see you, that's how they judge you, and you need to present
00:54:52your best self.
00:55:02Good morning.
00:55:04Good morning.
00:55:10Well, we're ready when you are.
00:55:12Hi, my name is Megan Sampson, and this is one of my capstone projects during my year-up session.
00:55:21Can I start over?
00:55:29Got this.
00:55:30I can do this.
00:55:32I got this.
00:55:33I can do this.
00:55:35I can.
00:55:36I can.
00:55:37I can.
00:55:41Hi, everyone.
00:55:43Good morning.
00:55:43Hi, good morning.
00:55:45Focus is a big part of surviving.
00:55:49There's focus on the task at hand.
00:55:51There's focus on what you're trying to accomplish, and there's focus on where you want to go.
00:55:55And we have the output, and we link it to the JavaScript that has the data, and that's how we
00:56:01output it in the drop down.
00:56:04The more focused, the more disciplined, the more disciplined people can actually sometimes go further than the smart people or
00:56:09the talented who lack that focus.
00:56:14You have to focus on the task every day, what I got to do, what's the job, how do I
00:56:19deliver, but also, big picture, where do I want to go?
00:56:24What do I want this all to mean?
00:56:36When you get that first job, you're getting paid to learn.
00:56:39And it doesn't matter if you dropped out in 10th grade, you graduated from high school, you went to college,
00:56:44you got a master's degree in whatever.
00:56:47When you get that first job, you're getting paid to learn.
00:56:50And if you look at it that way as an opportunity to educate yourself about the business world, about whatever
00:56:55it is you're doing, then you'll start realizing that that's the foundation to do other things.
00:57:03At the end of the day, companies need folks who can learn and who bring a set of skills and
00:57:09competencies.
00:57:10And the way work is structured today is much more about teamwork, it's about the attitudes and behaviors you need,
00:57:16it's about emotional intelligence, it's about complex communications.
00:57:20These are things you can actually assess.
00:57:32You have to protect your dreams out here, not just protect your dreams from haters and negative energy, you got
00:57:41to protect your dreams from yourself.
00:57:47When you're going on this journey, there will be doubt.
00:57:53As long as you are doing your best every single day, you will figure it out, just don't quit.
00:58:25American Express, Morgan Stanley, with $2.46 trillion in assets under management, one of the oldest financial firms in the
00:58:35world, operating in more than 130 countries, more than 60,000 employees, Fortune 500 less of the largest United States
00:58:44corporations by total revenue.
00:58:46American Express will be hosting Jaden Rodriguez, Fidel Chapman, J.P. Morgan Chase will be hosting M.D. Meyer.
00:59:19You're welcoming in W.D. BERMAN.
00:59:23You're welcoming dog there.
00:59:23SINGE!!!!
00:59:28SINGEQUE symbiolate
00:59:31TAMARA V�TE
00:59:33SOPHIE WU
00:59:35Congratulations.
00:59:38From J.P.M.C There's one more.
00:59:43Ruth Honore
00:59:52One very special intern will be joining FINRA.
00:59:57It is the largest independent regulator of security firms in the United States.
01:00:02FINRA will be hosting...
01:00:08Zane Richards.
01:00:22I have the privilege of announcing the interns that will be going to LinkedIn.
01:00:32LinkedIn will be hosting eight interns.
01:00:43Daisy De Los Santos.
01:00:48Monita Hossein.
01:00:50Frank Bahana.
01:00:54Karina Lopez.
01:00:57Michael Lehans.
01:00:59Cody Bailing.
01:01:04Lavia Ravins.
01:01:12And I have the pleasure of announcing the interns who will be going to Morgan Stanley.
01:01:18First up, we have Charlie Rivera.
01:01:22Anwar Al-Shahateng.
01:01:25Andy Johnson.
01:01:33Brianna Dyer.
01:01:37Balal Malik.
01:01:39Balal Malik.
01:01:41Pemba Sherpa.
01:01:47Andres McCall.
01:01:56Okay.
01:01:58Interns who will be joining Johnson & Johnson.
01:02:03Johnson & Johnson will be hosting...
01:02:13Abdubaris Dahl.
01:02:17Aiyana Williams.
01:02:23Aiyana Williams.
01:02:25And Megan Sampson.
01:02:32Congratulations.
01:02:33No chance.
01:02:58On the train back home,
01:03:00I actually shed a tear, like a couple.
01:03:06It was like, wow, I am really going to Johnson & Johnson,
01:03:13a company that I've been using since I was a baby.
01:03:18It's like the dream.
01:03:26There was a time where I was afraid of success or failure,
01:03:31but now I'm more about the journey and learning from it.
01:03:36I'm going to keep the same willingness to learn,
01:03:39that same curiosity,
01:03:42enter into my internship with Laser Focus.
01:03:48I'm excited for my daughter.
01:03:51That's really why I was so emotional,
01:03:55because it's like to be able to look at her and say, like,
01:03:58I'm really trying my best.
01:04:11This is not just one or two people.
01:04:13You're talking about a significant percentage of your country
01:04:16that can gain access to economic mobility
01:04:18if we just change the way we think and change the way we act.
01:04:23The numbers speak for themselves.
01:04:25Skills-based hiring and skills-based training
01:04:27are an important part of the country's economy
01:04:30and an important part of the future.
01:04:31And that takes work.
01:04:33These are complex systems that didn't get this way overnight.
01:04:35We need to kind of open horizons,
01:04:37look at skills, train people.
01:04:40You can have these strategic visions,
01:04:42but at the end of the day, jobs lead to dignity,
01:04:44lead to health, lead to homes, lead to families.
01:04:48It is a virtuous cycle.
01:04:51In order for communities to grow and thrive,
01:04:56you have to be able to lift people up
01:04:59so that they can be participants.
01:05:01That's the American dream, right?
01:05:03Where we're all thriving.
01:05:05We have to think about people who live in rural communities.
01:05:08We have to think about people who live outside of urban centers.
01:05:12We have talent that is all over this country.
01:05:15That results in us having a more vibrant economy.
01:05:19That results in our country being more competitive.
01:05:22And this is why skills are so important,
01:05:24because when you re-skill your workforce,
01:05:27you're prepared to take advantage of the good times,
01:05:30but you're also prepared for any headwind that may come at you as well.
01:05:35Talent is what wins in the end.
01:05:38Teams are what wins in the end.
01:05:40Skills are what deliver in the end.
01:05:43And companies that find a way to build diverse teams
01:05:46with people who have the skills, however they got them,
01:05:50are companies who are going to win,
01:05:52and are companies that should win.
01:05:54When you actually allow people to show what they can do,
01:05:58they're going to surprise you.
01:06:01Then we've got a system that can work.
01:06:05They want to win!
01:06:19Once we've shown Fat encountered 2002,
01:06:19it's quite a bit of something that can hurt.
01:06:19And now they have customers come out of employing them.
01:06:19Who can enjoy investment in the use?!
01:06:32They have no way to win Boots
01:09:33She said, um, guess how many photos I have in my phone?
01:09:38I said 3,000.
01:09:40She said no.
01:09:41I said 8,000.
01:09:42She said no.
01:09:43I said 12.
01:09:44She said no.
01:09:44She has 25,000 photos.
01:09:46But they're not photos of me.
01:09:47They're like TikToks and things that I've seen.
01:09:49I don't want to hear that.
01:09:50Why do you have 25,000 items?
01:09:53Let's see.
01:09:53Do you want to do it?
01:09:54No, I don't want to lose no more.
01:09:56No.
01:10:02I can't do that one.
01:10:04Most I can do is this.
01:10:05I'll be like...
01:10:05Let's see the spit.
01:10:06Let's see the spit.
01:10:08You ready?
01:10:09I'm ready.
01:10:09All right.
01:10:16All right.
01:10:17Now you better do that.
01:10:19You better be like...
01:10:23Hey, wait.
01:10:24What are we doing?
01:10:25We have to build a tower.
01:10:27Wait, are you from Brooklyn?
01:10:29Are you from Brooklyn?
01:10:31Yeah.
01:10:33I said it real Brooklyn-y.