America's missing workers: matching jobs to the jobless
America's missing workers: matching jobs to the jobless
Washington - Egypt Today
A few years ago, Derek Hobbs could not find a job. He had three strikes against him: his age, 55, a criminal record, and a drug addiction that kept him out of the formal workforce for more than 25 years.
When he decided to turn his life around, most employers dismissed him without a thought. Determined to succeed, Hobbs turned to an innovative program specializing in matching people facing employment challenges, to available jobs.
"They actually give people with those strikes against them a chance," he told AFP.
Hobbs is just one example of a growing problem in the US economy: companies unable to find workers with the right skills to fill open positions, and workers who can't find a job because they have the wrong skills.
The program Hobbs attended is in an impoverished area of Philadelphia, the neighborhood featured in the popular Will Smith sitcom from the 1990s, "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air": an area so dangerous his mother sent him to live with wealthy relations in California.
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