The effort surpassed its initial goals and is extending and broadening from its urgent origins last year, with an emphasis now on connecting learners with jobs that help them put their new training to use, and connecting employers with skilled job seekers they might not find in traditional networks. Now Salazar is one of more than 42 million people on every continent - even Antarctica - who have accessed free training through the Microsoft and LinkedIn global skills initiative, created a year ago to help unemployed workers during the pandemic.
I’m responsible for two human beings, so I thought, well, maybe this is a good time for some training.” I went 13 weeks without unemployment checks, so things were very scary. “I had just taken some of my savings out to pay down some debt, because I thought things were going really well,” Salazar recalls.
Her contingency had become a casualty of COVID-19. Then the pandemic shuttered salons, and unemployment benefits weren’t initially available for self-employed workers like hairdressers. The 36-year-old single mother returned to those roots when her two sons needed her to have a more flexible schedule than her job as a property manager allowed. Her father had impressed upon her the need to make sure she always had income options, so she went to cosmetology school while pursuing a business degree and cut hair between other career forays over the years. Hairdressing was supposed to be Justine Salazar’s safety net.
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