High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers
High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers
If America is going to get back to manufacturing, companies will need to get involved to make sure that there are trained people to hire. There will need to be more of this.
PHILADELPHIA—Elijah Rios won’t graduate from high school until next year, but he already has a job offer—one that pays $68,000 a year.
Rios, 17 years old, is a junior taking welding classes at Father Judge, a Catholic high school in Philadelphia that works closely with companies looking for workers in the skilled trades. Employers are dealing with a shortage of such workers as baby boomers retire. They have increasingly begun courting high-school students like Rios—a hiring strategy they say is likely to become even more crucial in the coming years.
