Employment Opportunities

New Hampshire grads get help finding jobs.

High school graduates in New Hampshire now have greater access to postgraduation job resources, thanks to a new state program.

The Youth Employment Services, or YES, project was launched last month by the New Hampshire Department of Employment Security. According to the department’s commissioner, Richard S. Brothers, nearly every high school in the state is interested in participating.

“It’s the department’s way of going after a market that hasn’t been served,” Mr. Brothers said. He estimated that 20 percent of his state’s high school graduates don’t enter college or the...