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California Service Corps seeks more than 2,000 workers in Bay Area
Summary
The California Service Corps is recruiting over 2,000 paid positions in the Bay Area for people ages 16–30, offering work such as landscaping, painting and preparing community meals; interested applicants are directed to caservicecorps.com, program representatives and a participant said.
OAKLAND — The California Service Corps is recruiting more than 2,000 paid positions across the Bay Area, offering roles in landscaping, food service, painting and other community-focused work, a program spokesperson said Thursday.
"And right now, we're trying to recruit for over 2,000 positions just here in the Bay Area," the program spokesperson said, describing opportunities for young people to "give back to their communities, contribute, but also build work skills, professional networks, and get paid at the same time." The program is recruiting people ages 16 to 30, and interested applicants were directed to caservicecorps.com.
The recruitment effort aims to combine job training with community service. "They're getting paid. We're helping them pay for school, and they're building professional networks," the spokesperson said, adding that corps members do "really meaningful work in our food banks, in our schools, in our parks." The segment said typical assignments include building, painting and preparing community meals.
Participant Jonathan Spain described hands-on work with the corps: "Well, I do landscaping. Like, we go out and we pick certain seeds that's, you know, like, beneficial that we need for our, our kitchen and especially for the community," he said, framing the roles as both vocational and community-minded.
The program's recruiters visited Oakland's youth employment partnership as part of a wider hiring campaign, the report said. The segment closed with the reporter's on-location credit.
Report from Zach Fuentes, ABC7 Eyewitness News.
