The Literacy Council of White County, a nonprofit organization which is located in Searcy, Ark, and focused on adult literacy, has chosen our book, Jails to Jobs: Seven Steps to Becoming Employed, as the basis for its prison education program. […]
Category Archives: Job Development
Homeboy Industries creates workforce development hub
If you manage a nonprofit that deals with helping people find employment and don’t have a workforce development hub, you may want to consider creating one. Or strengthening and improving the hub you’ve already established. And what Homeboy Industries learned […]
Home of Chicken & Waffles’ Derreck Johnson creates recipe for success
There’s no denying that hiring ex-offenders can be challenging, but more people have to do it if we’re ever going to lower the recidivism rate. And maybe they would if they listened to Derreck Johnson, owner of San Francisco Bay […]
Helping people find jobs in the aftermath of the great recession
The recession has changed hiring practices in both subtle and dramatic ways – ways that some job developers may not be aware of. Larry Robbin, a nationally known expert in the area of workforce development, brought job developers up to […]
How to close the referral gap
The referral gap is a barrier that job developers must deal with on a regular basis. People often need to go to a referral resource to deal with their barriers, but many won’t go. Larry Robbin, a nationally known expert […]
How to deal with hidden barriers
In our last post we defined hidden barriers to employment. In this one we are once again going to rely on Larry Robbin to help us determine how to deal with those barriers. Here are a few tips: The way […]