Insights are from individuals enrolled in the Heldrich Center’s innovative New Start Career Network (NSCN), a privately funded program offering free online information and career coaching from hundreds of volunteer coaches to more than 6,000 job seekers.
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Rutgers touts success of program for long-term unemployed in NJ
Emerging from the rubble of the Great Recession, the establishment of the New Start Career Network in 2015 provided support to more than 6,000 New Jerseyans experiencing long-term unemployment over its initial six-year period. That's according to Carl Van Horn,...
Strategically Virtual: Long-term Unemployed Older Workers Persist in a Boom Economy
A new Heldrich Center research brief notes concerns for long-term unemployed older workers and offers some strategies to assist this population, which is falling through the cracks of the new boom economy.
The Heldrich Center: A National Center of Workforce Development, Policy, and Scholarship
The Heldrich Center is one of the nation’s foremost research and policy organizations dedicated to strengthening the American workplace during an era of rapid global economic change.
From theater director to cheese expert: Displaced workers in some industries switch careers to stay afloat
With close to 1 million people still filing for first-time unemployment benefits every week, displaced workers in industries like travel, hospitality and entertainment are finding that they have to reorient their professional skills — and in some cases, their entire...
Latest jobs report shows long-term unemployment still on the rise, worrying economists
“The longer you’re out of work, the harder it is to get re-employed,” said Maria Heidkamp, director of the New Start Career Network at Rutgers University. “I think we're on the cusp of catastrophic long-term unemployment. The fact that so many of the layoffs we...
U.S. Labor Secretary Perez, job seekers praise the Heldrich Center’s New Start Career Network
On Tuesday, February 16, 2016, U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez visited the New Start Career Network (NSCN), an initiative of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, to conduct a roundtable with several of the network’s older, long-term...
Free help for long-term unemployed to find jobs
Job seekers who have been out of work for more than six months have no shortage of advice. How to write a resume. How to dress for a job interview. How to create a LinkedIn page. But the nation hasn't gotten a grip yet on how to help long-term unemployed workers...
US labor secretary talks with New Jersey's long-term unemployed
U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez met with out-of-work New Jerseyans, workforce professionals, and other government officials at Rutgers University on Tuesday for a roundtable discussion on the state's high long-term unemployment rate. Taking part in the discussion...
Heldrich Center launches New Start Career Network to assist NJ's older, long-term unemployed workers reenter the workforce
The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development recently introduced the New Start Career Network, an initiative to assist New Jersey’s long-term unemployed to reenter the workforce. Led by the Heldrich Center in collaboration with private-sector employers,...
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