Delta Air Lines is joining companies across America by committing to hiring at least 100 young people for their first job during the next year. The effort, called First Job Compact and announced by President Obama earlier this year, targets millions of young people who are out of school but not working.

As part of the campaign, Ed Bastian, chief executive officer, Delta Air Lines, described his own first job — working on an upstate New York road crew cleaning highways and flagging down traffic in construction areas.

“We can all remember the impact that first job had on each one of us,” Bastian said in a LinkedIn video message. “At Delta we have 80,000 employees … all people providing real value and real service to our customers, and I look forward to bringing the next hundred on to join our family.”

The initiative includes a social media push on Facebook and Twitter aimed at reaching the youth by using the hashtag #FirstJob. Delta continues to build partnerships with organizations to provide opportunity youth with the training and skills needed to successfully enter the workforce.

“We recognize that productive first jobs are important for a flourishing global economy, and Delta is committed to hiring at least 100 opportunity youth over the next year for a range of front-line positions that require no previous experience,” Delta said.

Participating companies agreed to identify jobs and internships that can be filled by workers ages 16 to 24 with little or no prior experience, to partner with nonprofits and others to recruit opportunity youth, develop a plan to support opportunity youth once hired and take steps to demonstrate how hiring opportunity youth adds business value.

Those interested in working at Delta should apply online and select #FirstJob when asked how they became aware of the role.