Comments on: Five Steps To Take If You’re Unemployed http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/12/five-steps-to-take-if-youre-unemployed-2/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Little Black Duck http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/12/five-steps-to-take-if-youre-unemployed-2/#comment-1105 Little Black Duck Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:08:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=12684#comment-1105 Odd.  Although your other articles discuss a lack of skills, there's no suggestion here that the unemployed might need to find ways to increase their skill levels.  Maybe this list is just for people who already have skills like American University students, not to mention contacts that could actually help them with employment.  I suspect a lot of the unemployed in Wards 7 & 8 don't really know folks who can help them find work.  Odd.  Although your other articles discuss a lack of skills, there’s no suggestion here that the unemployed might need to find ways to increase their skill levels.  Maybe this list is just for people who already have skills like American University students, not to mention contacts that could actually help them with employment.  I suspect a lot of the unemployed in Wards 7 & 8 don’t really know folks who can help them find work. 

]]> By: Brimstone http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/12/five-steps-to-take-if-youre-unemployed-2/#comment-1100 Brimstone Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:51:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=12684#comment-1100 "One major factor contributing to high unemployment rates in some D.C. neighborhoods is not having the right skill set." "Right skill set"???   WHAT  "Skill set"???    The only 'skill' a lot of these people have is being able to pick stuff up and set it down somewhere else. No wonder no employer needs  there 'skills'. “One major factor contributing to high unemployment rates in some D.C. neighborhoods is not having the right skill set.”

“Right skill set”???   WHAT  “Skill set”???    The only ‘skill’ a lot of these people have is being able to pick stuff up and set it down somewhere else. No wonder no employer needs  there ‘skills’.

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