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Gerald Chertavian
American
Businessman
Born:
May 15
,
1965
Businesses
Opportunity
People
Year
You
Young
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The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.
Gerald Chertavian
Attitude
Communication
Behavior
ABC
Communication Skills
Skills
You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that as its standard.
Gerald Chertavian
You
College
Young
Our
System
Adult
Does
Educational
Graduate
Young Adults
Where
Want
Unfortunately
Requirements
Standard
Who
Now
Right
You can learn what you want to learn through hard work. And a good employer will teach you what you want to learn as long as you show the right attitude and behaviors.
Gerald Chertavian
Work
Attitude
Hard Work
Good
You
Will
Long
Through
Employer
Learn
Behaviors
Want
Teach
Hard
Show
Right
The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.
Gerald Chertavian
Saying
You
Business
Behavior
Technically
Responsibility
Fire
Additional
Ways
Carry
Would
Promoted
About
Rather
Given
More
Argue
Take
Attitudes
Know
Hire
Subject
Up
Linked
Than
Behaviors
Move
Order
Skills
Many
Career
Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.
Gerald Chertavian
Savings
Once
Cost
Outsourcing
Longer
Did
Businesses
Receiving
Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.
Gerald Chertavian
Work
Training
Focus
Half
Programs
Kind
Only
Schools
Equation
Often
Just
Skill
Many
When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution.
Gerald Chertavian
Problem
Opportunity
Young
Solution
Adult
Part
Sources
Expanding
Substantial
Young Adults
Businesses
One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'
Gerald Chertavian
Low Expectations
Fall
Expectations
Low
Soft
Year Up for me is a year in which the young adults that we serve have an opportunity to move up in their lives and gain the access and opportunity they need to realize their potential.
Gerald Chertavian
Me
Opportunity
Year
Young
Potential
Adult
Access
Up
Move
Young Adults
Gain
Which
Realize
Lives
Serve
Need
Many of our students say, 'We wish we had a mentor in high school. We wish we had someone we could spend more time with, who paid more attention to us, who I could sit down with and talk to when I had a problem.' So relationships are critical.
Gerald Chertavian
Time
Problem
School
Wish
Sit
Down
Relationships
Our
Spend
Say
Critical
High
High School
Someone
More
Mentor
Could
Students
Had
Attention
Talk
Us
Paid
Who
Many
Our young immigrants have a lot to offer. They are motivated and hard-working, and in many cases have already contributed significantly to our society - by excelling in school, by volunteering in their communities, or by serving in the military.
Gerald Chertavian
School
Young
Military
Society
Our
Immigrants
Cases
Motivated
Lot
Offer
Communities
Many
Hard-Working
Serving
At Year Up, our students - low income 18-24 year olds - come to us having already faced substantial obstacles in life. They are not in search of a handout; what they want most of all is the ability to take ownership of their own futures.
Gerald Chertavian
Life
Year
Own
Ownership
Our
Futures
Ability
Faced
Having
Take
Students
Obstacles
Come
Most
Up
Handout
Substantial
Want
Low
Low-Income
Us
Search
Income
I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.
Gerald Chertavian
You
People
Treat
Matters
How
Very
Taught
Actually
Early
When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're not. The employer realizes knowledge will shift quickly, and there's a half-life to knowledge in this world.
Gerald Chertavian
Knowledge
People
World
Will
Think
About
Employer
Half-Life
Shift
Dominant
Quickly
Being
Skills
Hard
Workplace
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