H I R E D

HIRED NURTURES PURPOSE AND ADVANCES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL THROUGH CAREER SERVICES.

Hired's Vision: Empowered people and families. A prepared workforce. An inclusive economy. We o

Goal One: Skills for Meaningful Work: Provide training, support, and access to opportunities that prepare job seekers with the skills to secure and retain sustainable employment.

Goal Two: Expanded holist support: Create connections to additional services to ensure family stability and work readiness.

Goal Three: Employer Partnerships: Deepen and expand employer partnerships to create more inclusive, responsive, and reflective workplaces.

Hired invests in leadership development through on-going internal leadership training for supervisors, managers and directors through a monthly series of training workshops called "LEAD", which feature guest speakers and topics related to strong leadership, strategic direction, and employee-centered team leadership. It further develops in leadership through support for internal and external mentors for employees, on-going employee professional development, and leadership opportunities through a variety of internal and external committees. In the past year, Hired has partnered with several nonprofit and for profit organizations to provide opportunities for staff and leaders to focus on skills building and learning related to their own emotional well-being; diversity, equity and inclusion; motivational interview techniques, and more.

The last three years have required a lot of adaptation and change, not just due to the impact of the pandemic and the need to provide services via hybrid methods, but also because of the changing needs of the people with whom we work. At its core, Hired's work advances economic and employment equity, working to remove barriers to employment, education, and career training, as well as to support companies in changing their practices and policies to be more inclusive and welcoming, thereby retaining employees. Within the last year, we have expanded our programs to provide additional career pathway training in high demand fields that will be family-sustaining wages with benefits, which addresses companies' needs for skilled workers and individual jobseekers' needs to upskill/reskill to obtain work that will provide for their families economic needs. For instance, we are expanding our programming to train people for medical manufacturing, healthcare (CNAs), human services positions, and security officer roles in different areas of our service area, based upon participant and employer demands. Another major way that Hired adapted to external changes in the past year was launching our Ambassadors Program, that employed Hired program alumni to go out into the community to meet with people in their own neighborhoods and share with them information about the various services and programs that Hired offers, and connect them with employment and career training and our individualized services. Because the majority of the clients that Hired serves, and has always served, face systemic barriers to economic success and employment, Hired has also provided extensive focus around centering the voices of the participants that we serve. We completed a 1-year strategic planning process in December of 2022, which gathered input and feedback from more than 500 current and former program participants, as well as community members, partners, funders and more.