Job Shadowing Quotes

After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

Something I can't stress enough is the massive importance of work experience. It's the only way to find out what work is really like when you're figuring out what path to take and to get an understanding of what it takes to achieve your career ambitions.

The best job training is a job – any job.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

I went to Drexel University, majored in computer science. Drexel has a great program - they call it co-op - but its, like, mandatory to graduate to do internships. I loved it because it helped me figure out very quickly that I didn't really want to be a programmer.

The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

Some companies have a very well-defined program that they bring young people into to help them figure out what they really like to do to get them exposure to senior management early.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

We have seen a shift in the focus of education before entering the workplace, with earning and learning the new norm.

So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.

Work-based learning is a game changer. It's like test driving a career, and I have seen it in action with our registered apprenticeship programs for high school students.

It was something I always wanted to do: see how other people work.

The wider the exposure that we give children of the real working world, the better.

If I wasn't modelling, I'd probably be an intern somewhere, working for someone who interned the year before me.

My advice for young people is, study what you love and intern in what you want to do. And I think it's okay to pivot as many times as you need to.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.

Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?