February 13, 2014
“Skills for Chicagoland’s Future is driven by business demand. One of the reasons it works so well is because people are trained for specific job openings. Beyond that, the goal is also to make sure the skills individuals learn are transferable to a variety of jobs.” - Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle
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Unemployed Cook County Residents Get a Boost to Get Back to Work
Skills for Chicagoland’s Future (SCF) was recently showcased at a White House summit focused on strategies to reduce long-term unemployment. SCF is a public-private partnership that helps match businesses with current, unmet hiring needs with qualified, unemployed job seekers by closing the skills gap in Chicago and Cook County by providing recruitment, placement and training services at no cost to the job seeker.