The Corporate Internship Leadership
Institute (CILI) is a brand-new not-for-profit group whose main goal is to improve
the road from college-studying to full-time wage-earning. Perry Sholes, the president
of Progressive HR Strategies Incorporated, spearheaded and created CILI with
the intent of diversifying and aiding the next generation of to-be workers as
they transition from college life to full-time employment. CILI has produced an
online job board, fittingly named Internship Central, that allows
students to both ensure that the internships they are entering into will
provide valuable experience and to search for paid internships.
Tenth Institute is a subgroup of
the CILI program that specifically focuses on the promotion of black and brown
leadership in New Orleans. They aim to ensure that any and all students
involved will be given not only a worthwhile education, but also opportunities
to develop skill sets necessary to reach the upper echelons of leadership
positions, specifically in a corporate setting. Applications for the Tenth
Institute program will open online on December 28.
CILI has an
overall goal of reducing the number of either unemployed-yet-skilled people or
those not in a fitting career path. Underemployed and unused potential in the
Greater New Orleans area as well as the whole of Louisiana is what the group
ultimately wants to tap into and ameliorate. They certainly understand that New
Orleans and areas with high unemployment do not actually lack the skills
necessary to be successful, rather, education and opportunities themselves are
in too short supply. Especially in times when unemployment is rising due to
health concerns, a group that aims to promote an easier transition to the
workforce, especially for Louisiana's black and brown citizens, can only help.
CILI encourages any students interested in the program to visit internshiptalent.com.
