Baltimore Finds an Innovative Way to Recruit a New Generation of Professionals

A Baltimore initiative recruits unemployed and underemployed young people and trains them for water and wastewater careers.

Baltimore Finds an Innovative Way to Recruit a New Generation of Professionals

The YH20 class of 2017 celebrated completion of the program with City of Baltimore representatives and water industry supporters. Front row, seated left to right: Jason Perkins-Cohen, Mayor’s Office of Employment Development director; Rudolph Chow, P.E., Department of Public Works director; Mayor Catherine Pugh; Bernard “Jack” Young, City Council president; and Anthony Greene, internship coordinator in the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development Youth Services Division.

Upon seeing seasoned workers leave for retirement and take many years of institutional knowledge with them, Rudolph Chow, P.E., met with department and industry colleagues and came up with a way to address the problem.

At the same time, Baltimore was experiencing widespread...

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