This section is under construction but once completed will allow you to search for employment prospects, submit your resume for consideration by prospective employers and give you some tools to help you improve your interviewing skills.
NY/NJ SAAM will also work to maximize the impact of efforts already underway by partner organizations to address economic opportunity in the region. One example of these efforts is the work of the Community Service Society (CSS) under David Jones’ (shown above) leadership. CSS research revealed the depths of Black male joblessness in New York City and prompted the New York City Council to commit $10 million to workforce development. As a consequence of CSS’ work, and upon the urging of Rep. Charles Rangel, Mayor Michael Bloomberg initiated the Construction Employment Opportunities Commission that confronted barriers to employment in the construction trades for people of color and women. The mayor named both Rep. Rangel and David Jones to that commission, along with Comptroller William Thompson. CSS is now in the planning stages of a long-term campaign to address barriers to employment facing formerly incarcerated residents who return to their home communities.
NY/NJ SAAM is committed to expanding employment opportunities for Black men in all sectors of the local economy. We intend to make a concerted effort to recruit the New York metropolitan area’s considerable corporate community to provide access to the large pool of intellectual capital among Black males that is often overlooked and discounted. As corporate America takes up the rallying cry of diversity and the public demands greater social responsibility from corporate citizens, our standard measure of equity in business practices will be inclusion. In a city where people of color now comprise the majority, and make up a sizeable portion of the region, NY/NJ SAAM has the reasonable expectation of a reasonable return for our investment in these enterprises as consumers, shareholders and taxpayers.
