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The Swiss Secret to Jump-Starting Your Career
A first-of-its-kind youth apprenticeship program in Colorado aims to prepare students for the industries of the future by mirroring a successful model in Europe.
On a recent sunny summer morning, Ben Roueche pulled into the parking lot at the corporate headquarters of HomeAdvisor, in a suburban office park near Denver.
Once inside, Roueche, wearing jeans and a Tshirt, sat down at a desk, logged on to his computer, and started resolving support tickets submitted by HomeAdvisor employees seeking
help for everything from password resets to problems accessing the company’s internal phone system.
At one point, Roueche paused to chat with his supervisor about establishing a setup procedure for a new video prototype that some executives will soon begin using.
Ben Roueche is 17; he just finished his junior year of high school.
For the past year, he has spent three days a week attending classes at a charter high school and two days a week working on the desktop-support team at HomeAdvisor.
Earlier this summer, Roueche started working at HomeAdvisor three days a week, a schedule he’ll maintain throughout his senior year.
