Skills for Chicagoland’s Future

Skills for Chicagoland’s Future’s (Skills) focus is on connecting jobs to people and people to jobs, because everyone should have equal access to employment. The roadblocks and hurdles that exist for unemployed and underemployed job seekers are often insurmountable and build on systemic inequities in the workforce and economy. Through placement into jobs, Skills works to reduce barriers to employment and increase equity.

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Skills utilizes a non-traditional, jobs-first workforce approach. This starts by working with employers to identify hiring needs and develop career pathways. Then, Skills’ staff personally finds, interviews, coaches, and connects qualified unemployed and underemployed candidates with hiring managers, bridging the access gap that exists. Over 70% of Skills’ applicants come from historically underserved neighborhoods on Chicago’s South and West Sides.

Skills’ unique approach has produced consistent results and has had a profound impact on thousands of people annually across the Chicagoland area. Jobs can be life-changing, and Skills exists to make that a reality.