Gerald Chertavian Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.”

“Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.”

“Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.”

“The millennial generation and a growing number of employees are looking for more than just a paycheck. If a nonprofit could make that easy for me, they are doing me a favor. It's not just a one-way value exchange; it is an internal morale building opportunity.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that as one of our national assets and one of the things that makes America strong.”

“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.”

“At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.”

“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.”