WACA 2009 EEO Public File Report

Dated: June 1, 2009
Updated: May, 2011

WACA 2009 EEO Public File Report

List of full-time vacancies filled by the Station's employment unity during the previous year:

• None

For each vacancy, the recruitment sources utilized:

• N/A. No hires during the previous year.

The recruitment source that referred the hire for each full-time vacancy during the preceding year:

• N/A.

Data reflecting the total number of persons interviewed for full-time vacancies during the preceding year and the total number of interviewees referred by each recruitment source utilized in connection with such vacancies:

• N/A

List and brief description of initiatives undertaken pursuant to paragraph (c)(2) of this section during the preceding year:

WACA partnered with the Maryland Multicultural Youth Center Silver Spring Summer Internship Program to provide internships for three high school-age students, two of whom had dropped out of high school and were participating in the LAYC-Latin American Youth Center GED program.

WACA staff spent approximately 3 hours a day with each student, five days a week, to prepare them for the field of broadcast communications, which included journalism experience, short on-air appearances, production, board operation, creative writing, public affairs, and clerical work.

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