WE’RE ON A MISSION
Breaking barriers, building futures:
Driving workforce representation through skills-based hiring.
Our Mission
YUPRO Placement is a Public Benefit Corporation, and the nation’s leading mission-driven, skills-first job placement and career advancement firm. YUPRO Placement and its parent company, Year Up United, were founded by Gerald Chertavian to reshape the world of work, ensuring it works for everyone, not just a select few.
We believe that skills-based hiring is the answer to driving business results and creating lasting change for businesses, communities, and individuals. Hiring for skills, abilities and potential creates job opportunities for all. We offer access to an untapped community of talent Skilled Through Alternative Routes, also referred to as STARs.
Partner with Purpose. Join us in shaping the workforce of the future one STAR at a time.
How we help talent from traditionally untapped pools build the careers they want with the support they deserve.
Skills-first champion
We connect candidates with employers by matching their skill sets with the specific requirements of the role. This strategy benefits employers by tapping into untapped yet highly skilled talent while candidates gain access to good jobs.
Professional Apprenticeships
Our Skills-to-StaffTM Professional Apprenticeship offers our talent from traditionally untapped pools the opportunity for career advancement and skill development in high-demand positions.
Coaching & support services
Our commitment goes beyond job placements. We provide comprehensive support and coaching to all our talent, both before and after placement, to ensure job success and career advancement.
Untapped talent community
We connect employers with our proprietary nationwide talent marketplace, consisting of 200k+ motivated and skilled jobseekers from traditionally untapped pools.
The YUPRO Placement difference.
25%
11 months
Transforming lives.
Brudjah
“Being an apprentice is one of the best ways to learn. Through [my] apprenticeship, I know that having my foot in the corporate door will open more opportunities and allow me to help others break through barriers. I also got the unconditional support of Year Up & YUPRO Placement [and] will forever be grateful for their willingness to help young adults like me.”
Rada
“I had a zero experience in Project Management, but knew that apprenticeship [was] an amazing opportunity to gain experience in any field. It was also a great opportunity to present myself as someone who was willing to learn . . .which further led to [obtaining] a full-time role.”
Kwame
The skills I’ve developed working here can be applied to take me almost anywhere—from the leadership skills that strengthened my interpersonal abilities—to newfound technical skills and an understanding of how to take a website or mobile application from beginning to end in the software development life cycle. This apprenticeship has provided me with tremendous value and momentum toward my goal of becoming a software engineer.
Extending our positive impact.
As a Public Benefit Corporation, our mission-driven business plan prioritizes stakeholders, values, and impact alongside profitability. We consider the broader social implications of our actions and seek to benefit all involved parties. Here are just a few of the ways in which we continuously seek to further extend our positive impact beyond our immediate mission.
Give back to our non-profit partners.
With every placement, we donate a percentage of our placement proceeds to support the missions of our non-profit training provider partners.
Partner with findhelp.org.
We partner with findhelp.org to help our talent community access 875+ free and reduced-cost resources for transit, housing, food, legal, health, and much more.
Mission-aligned and B-Corp vendors.
We purposefully seek out mission-aligned and B-corp vendors to meet our needs as an organization, such as Symba, PrideOne, AdeptID and FindHelp.
Partner with 501c3 Grateful.
We partner with Grateful to amplify its positive impact and have extended charitable giving cards to employees, clients, and partners. To date, we have supported 250+ non-profits through this initiative.
Our sustainable development goals.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
YUPRO Placement, and our parent company Year Up United, together work toward supporting the following eight sustainable development goals (SDGs) as defined by the UN.
Learn more about Sustainable Development Goals.
About Year Up United.
Year Up United is a national workforce development organization committed to expanding access to economic opportunity for all young adults by providing business and talent solutions to reshape the world of work. We envision a future where everyone has equal opportunity to achieve their full potential, and we know it will take multiple approaches to realize this vision. For nearly 25 years, we have catalyzed change in the talent and business landscape, delivering comprehensive solutions that drive material impact on lives, companies, and communities. Our work is not done. United, we will end the Opportunity Divide for good. To learn more, visit https://www.yearupunited.org