Quintin Scott graduated Sunday from Chicago’s Crane Medical Prep High School with a head start to becoming a professional welder and a direct pipeline to Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The two met in March during a trades job fair at McCormick Place, where Lightfoot passed her phone number to Scott and encouraged him to keep in …
By ABC7 Chicago Digital Team CHICAGO (WLS) — On Thursday, there will be a hospitality hiring event at Palmer House hotel in Chicago. But applications have a pre-registration Tuesday deadline. There will be about 50 employers at the event with open positions, including leadership from McCormick Place. The Partnership operates a network of more than 90 …
The Chicago Department of Public Health and Malcolm X College have partnered to train members of the COVID Response Corps to knock on doors and have difficult discussions about vaccines in the city’s hardest-hit neighborhoods. Reset speaks with a CDPH official and a vaccine ambassador to hear how the program is going. GUESTS: Patrick Stonehouse, Chicago …
When Armani Nightengale waited in the car last March to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at the United Center, her husband was more nervous than she was. Over the next couple of weeks, he carefully checked her arm to make sure nothing looked wrong. Then, the conversation shifted to when he would get the shot. That’s …
As COVID-19 cases rise, some members of Chicago’s COVID-19 Community Response Corps say they’re prepared to handle the winter months. Earlier in the pandemic, the program began by focusing on contact tracing. But it has since expanded to meet other needs – like scheduling vaccine appointments and working the city’s COVID-19 hotline. The Chicago Cook …
Jacquie Johnson, 54, lost her job by choice — the kind of choice most of us wouldn’t hesitate to make. When it came to getting back to work, she made another choice she won’t ever regret. Jacquie was working as a supervisor of environmental services at a major hospital in Indiana when she made the …
CHICAGO (WLS) — Hire Chicago, the city’s five-week hiring initiative, is focused on technology careers this week. Register on Monday to participate in virtual workshops. There are also some in-person sites. Read the full article here.
The new collaborative effort Hire Chicago has been working to find unemployed Chicagoans a job. Karin Norington-Reaves, chief executive officer at the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership and a lead collaborator in the program, said there are currently more than 15,000 jobs available from just under 300 employers posted on their system. Read the full article here.
CHICAGO (WLS) — April is Second Chance Month in the U.S., a time to focus on the challenges and opportunities for formerly incarcerated people, including the career obstacles after reentry. Read the full article here.
Greg Martínez, de Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, explica cómo desde la organización están ayudando a que personas con antecedentes penales puedan tener un trabajo. Afirma que esta “es una oportunidad para desarrollar ese talento históricamente desaprovechado”. Asimismo, habla sobre un evento que se realizará el 21 de abril para empresarios que quieran saber sobre este …