Updated 04/27/2010 02:25 PM
Students Dress for Success
Students at Albany High's Abrookin Vocational Tech Center get a taste of the working world. It's all part of Dress for Success day. Our Sabina Kuriakose has more on how students are dressing their best to show their best.
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- "We wanted to get them learning what to wear to a job interview. You don't wear jeans, you don't wear flip flops, things like that," said Abrookin Vocational Center school counselor Kristy Koldis.
It's all part of dressing for success, outside the classroom. Students here are learning how to look their best when they head into the job market.
"Just getting them prepared for those summer jobs," said Koldis.
"I definitely want to model. That's my number one, that's plan A," said junior Mone Ware.
That's plan A for Mone and honing her interviewing skills is just one step towards achieving her goal. Students like Mone held mock sessions with staff to get them used to talking to employers.
Another thing the school wanted students to do was to start putting those resumes together. That's why they had a drop off box where students dropped off their resumes for critique. For a lot of these students, it's the first resume they've ever put together.
"Their families work and they're at home watching their siblings at the end of the day, so they may not have that opportunity to really learn the different opportunities that are out there," said Koldis.
And of course, students learned about one of the latest challenges facing new arrivals to the job scene: Private information on the Internet.
"They don't realize these Facebook pages and things they do on the internet can affect them down the road," said Koldis.
A skill Koldis hopes students will take away from Dress for Success Day.