Community Testimonials

“I am so pleased that you spoke with my student. I wish you could see the smile on her face right now. When we started this conversation, she had questions and concerns, but now she has some great ideas to go with. And now that I know I’m aware of these resources, I can share them with my other students too.”

- Kay Westing, Kennedy High School Counselor

“What a wonderful and thorough follow-up!  Thank you so much.  This information is fantastic and much appreciated.  Thanks for helping so many students.”

- Julie Chapman, Ballard High School, Counselor

“Last week we had Jeffrey Stein and Aisling Sanford from teenjobs.org come by to talk about job finding skills and internships.  They talked about what employers and job placement specialists (like himself) look for in young adults.  As one of my students said, ‘They didn't tell us what we wanted to hear, but what we needed to hear.’  So thank you again for coming. “

– Kyle Forar, Truman High School, Advisor

“This internship has been wonderful for my son. He returns home everyday excited and shares with me what his day was like. Thank you for helping him to find this really great opportunity.”

– Parent (Mrs. S) of Summer Intern, 17 year old in ZymogGenetics Lab

YouthForce Summer Event 2005 – Special Guest Peter Han

“I thought it was great how you guys were able to bring Peter in to talk with us and having a group talk afterwards.  After the presentation and hearing people’s inputs on the learning documents I felt more motivated and inspired to do them.  I don’t now if this applies to other youthforce interns, but I’m guessing what I had lack was motivation?  Having a guest speaker and coming together as a group really gave me the extra push to go out and interview people.  Overall, I enjoyed every part of it.”  - Shu Ming, Accounting, ZymoGenetics 

“The event today was really interesting.  It's great the way Jeffrey is able to see an opportunity like this and put it into a context for the students that seems very useful and engages their participation.  Peter Han seemed genuinely pleased at the outcome of the interview exercise that Jeffrey opened with, and I think it allowed for a more casual conversation with him than he might normally present, which I think is more interesting to the students.” Andrew Ching, Science Library, ZymoGenetics 

“Thank you so much for organizing the event yesterday. I thought it was really motivating, and more importantly, a great way to meet and "network" with new people.“ Yahui Li, HR Dept., ZymoGenetics 

“Thanks for setting up a great event yesterday. I really enjoyed meeting you folks, and the twist with the icebreaker exercise was fun! I hope the kids enjoyed the talk; please let me know if they bubbled up any additional questions with which I can help later.” – Peter Han, Author of Nobodies to Somebodies.  

“I think I always knew I should strive for the top, but hearing Peter made the pathway a little clearer and more focused.” – Xuyen Nguyen, Intern, YouthForce