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Career Direction
Identify strengths, interests, immediate goals, and realistic pathways toward employment, training, college, or entrepreneurship.
Teen Job Readiness Program
Building Future Professionals. Empowering Young Entrepreneurs.
Two youth development pathways: Get Hired equips high school students with real-world career readiness skills, while Young Bosses introduces middle and high school students to entrepreneurship, financial awareness, and leadership.
Get Hired 3-Day Pilot: Grades 9–12 • Young Bosses: Middle & High School
BUILD
A résumé, sample application, and job-search plan
PRACTICE
Interview responses, communication, and confidence
PREPARE
Workplace habits, first-paycheck decisions, and next steps
For Schools & Youth-Serving Organizations
Practical Career Readiness Without Adding Another Curriculum Burden.
MWDT provides instructor-led learning, guided practice, realistic examples, and student tools. The program is adapted to each school's schedule, student population, and career-readiness goals.
The MWDT Solution
Students do more than listen—they practice. Sessions connect directly to first jobs, summer employment, internships, work-based learning, and longer-term education or career planning.
Each workshop is planned for up to 20 students per facilitator. MWDT prepares a custom base quote that adjusts with student count, travel, and allotted time. We confirm the final scope, scheduling, and any requested add-ons with each school or organization.
Curriculum Blueprint
A Roadmap From Readiness to Results.
Schools select the modules and level of depth that fit their students. Longer formats allow more guided practice, completed work products, and individualized feedback.
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Résumé Building
Create an age-appropriate résumé using school experience, activities, volunteer work, accomplishments, and transferable skills.
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Applications
Complete paper and online applications accurately while avoiding the mistakes that often stop an application from moving forward.
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Job Search & Safety
Find legitimate opportunities, use job boards and local networks, track applications, follow up, and recognize common scams.
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Interview Preparation
Practice introductions, common questions, STAR-style examples, employer questions, follow-up, and confident body language.
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Professional Image
Choose appropriate attire and practice professional email, phone, text, and in-person communication.
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Workplace Success
Understand punctuality, attendance, teamwork, feedback, accountability, problem-solving, boundaries, and responsible choices.
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First Paycheck
Understand gross and net pay, deductions, direct deposit, basic budgeting, saving, and responsible spending.
Students Who Benefit Most
- Freshmen and sophomores beginning career exploration and learning professional habits
- Juniors and seniors seeking a first job, summer position, internship, or work-based learning opportunity
- Students who need a résumé, application support, interview confidence, or stronger workplace communication
- College-bound, career-focused, vocational, entrepreneurial, and undecided students who need practical next steps
What Students Can Leave With
- A completed or substantially developed student résumé and reusable template
- A sample job application and job-search tracker
- A personalized next-step plan
- Mock-interview practice with structured feedback
- A professional-image and workplace-communication checklist
- A workplace-accountability plan
- A first-paycheck budgeting exercise
- An MWDT certificate of completion when participation requirements are met
Flexible Delivery
Choose the Format That Fits Your Students.
Every engagement includes planning coordination, instructor-led delivery, student materials and templates, interactive practice, and agreed completion documentation.
Two-Hour Introduction
One 120-minute session
A focused introduction to first-job skills with guided practice.
Half-Day Workshop
About 3 hours
More time for résumé, application, or interview activities.
Full-Day Workshop
Schedule with breaks
A broader set of skills and hands-on practice in one school day.
Three-Day Series
About 2 hours per day
Résumé and job search, applications, then mock interviews.
Five-Day Series
60–90 minutes per day
Build skills over three days, prepare for interviews on Day 4, and hold mock interviews on Day 5.
How the five-day series can work
Day 1: first-job opportunities and strengths. Day 2: a truthful first résumé. Day 3: applications and professional messages. Day 4: interview preparation and practice. Day 5: mock interviews with feedback; students come dressed to impress for an interview.
Each workshop is planned for up to 20 students per facilitator. Larger groups can use additional facilitators or back-to-back sessions when time allows, with a quote adjusted for group size. The mix of activities and schedule can change with student count, needs, and allotted time. More extensive application work, including a goal of up to five suitable submissions, can be scoped for an extended program.
Optional add-ons
Select the support your school or organization needs in the inquiry form. Add-ons are scoped and quoted in your custom proposal; no prices are posted here.
- Customized curriculum or organization-specific content
- Additional 30 minutes added to a session
- Additional 60 minutes added to a session
- Printed participant workbook
- Individual résumé review
- Individual résumé rewrite or edit
- Individual mock interview
- Individual 30-minute coaching session
- Pre- and post-program skills assessment
- Employer or organization completion report
- 60-minute follow-up group session
- Additional facilitator for large groups
- On-site travel outside our standard service area
Live Virtual Onsite
New Jersey Career Readiness
Supports Relevant NJSLS Priorities.
MWDT works with school staff to identify the appropriate local curriculum connections for each approved program.
The program does not independently award course credit or replace district curriculum approval.
NJSLS 9.2
Career awareness, exploration, preparation, and training
Career goals, job-search planning, résumés, applications, interviews, and education-to-career next steps.
NJSLS 9.4
Life literacies and key skills
Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, digital job-search literacy, problem-solving, professionalism, and responsible decisions.
NJSLS 9.1
Personal financial literacy
Gross and net pay, deductions, direct deposit, budgeting, saving, and responsible spending choices.
Evaluation Options for Schools
MWDT can document attendance, student-artifact completion, a brief pre- and post-program confidence check, an instructor skills rubric, and a concise school summary. Measures are selected before delivery to reflect the approved format and student goals.
School Partnership Toolkit
Communication Support Is Already Built In.
Partner schools receive clear, ready-to-customize materials that help administrators, counselors, students, and families understand the approved program.
Administrator Program Overview
Program goals, curriculum, delivery formats, outcomes, evaluation options, and school-planning details.
Guidance Counselor Referral Guide
Clear indicators for identifying students who would benefit from practical employment preparation.
Parent & Guardian Information
School-ready language explaining program content, student benefits, participation details, and next steps.
Student & Family Communications
Email, text, student-portal, hallway-monitor, referral-script, and social-media language that schools can customize.
Start With the Public Brochure
Review or share the public overview now. The complete School Partnership Packet is provided by request so MWDT can pair the planning materials with your student group, format, schedule, accessibility needs, and goals.
Teen & Youth Programs
Young Bosses: From Ideas to Opportunities
Entrepreneurship education for middle and high school students.
Young Bosses encourages young people to discover their potential through entrepreneurship, financial awareness, creative problem-solving, communication, and leadership. MWDT partners with schools, nonprofits, and youth organizations to bring engaging, age-appropriate learning opportunities to students.
Paid workshops and multi-session programs are customized for each partner. Contact us for a program proposal and pricing.
Program at a Glance
Audience
Middle & high school students
Program Options
Single-session pilot workshop or multi-session series
Focus
Entrepreneurship, financial awareness, leadership & communication
Delivery
On-site or virtual; customized paid group training
Choose Your Young Bosses Experience
Single-Session Pilot Workshop
Discover Your Entrepreneurial Potential
An engaging introduction that helps students explore business ideas, build confidence, and see the connection between creativity and opportunity. Available as a paid introductory experience.
Multi-Session Series
Build, Grow & Present Your Vision
A deeper youth entrepreneurship journey covering business-minded decision-making, financial concepts, communication, and confidence through age-appropriate learning experiences.
Inside the Young Bosses Series
Phase 1: Explore Your Ideas
Explore interests, opportunities and creative thinking.
Phase 2: Shape Your Vision
Build business awareness, confidence and smart decision-making.
Phase 3: Present with Confidence
Strengthen communication and leadership through presentation.
Both options are tailored separately for middle school and high school participants. Duration, group size, and scope are confirmed in a custom paid proposal.
For Students & Families
Need a Job but Don't Know Where to Start?
No résumé yet? Applying and not hearing back? Nervous about interviews? The Teen Job Readiness Program helps you prepare, apply, interview, and show up ready.
No formal job experience is required. School projects, activities, volunteer work, family responsibilities, skills, accomplishments, and personal strengths can all help tell your story.
Questions This Program Helps Answer
- What do I put on a résumé if I have never had a job?
- Where can I find safe, legitimate jobs for teenagers?
- How do I complete applications without making common mistakes?
- What should I say—and wear—during an interview?
- How do I communicate professionally with an employer?
- What will be expected of me after I get hired?
- What do the numbers on my first paycheck mean?
Practical Tools. Clear Instruction. Relatable Guidance.
Monroe Workforce Development & Training LLC is a Newark-based training company focused on practical, accessible learning that helps young people understand what employers expect and how to prepare.
MWDT combines instructor-led guidance, realistic examples, reusable tools, and hands-on practice so every student can leave with greater confidence and a clear next step.
Start a School Partnership Conversation
Let's Build the Right Program for Your Students.
Choose your student count, time available per day, proposed days, and any add-ons. MWDT will prepare a custom base quote adjusted for group size, travel, and time.
Schools and organizations can request a customized training proposal. Program availability, scope, and preview eligibility are confirmed during the planning conversation.
Built for Schools. Designed for Student Momentum.
Practical tools instead of abstract advice. Age-appropriate examples. Guided practice. Flexible delivery. Customized outcomes.
