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Many training programs IMPLY that taking their training or enrolling in their program will lead to employment. These programs have become very crafty about how the present themselves because they know that people will often not get jobs as a result of the training and they don’t want to be “on-the-hook.” They do however advertise “lifetime placement assistance” whatever that means.

I’ve totally given up on Employment Agencies or Temporary Help Agencies. Most of the time when I apply to such agencies I do not even get a response. If I do go in for their testing process I never hear from them again. These outfits are a total waste of the job seekers time and energy. One of the problems is that many people get sucked into these because they are desperate for work. The agencies I’m talking about are the so-called One Stop Career Centers (WorkForce1 in New York) that are funded through the federal Workplace Investment Act (WIA); which is the successor the CETA (Comprehensive Education and Training Act).

I just posed a Solution involving your idea about the employers being more intimately involved in these programs. That could offer some real hope for working solutions.

The bottom line is this:

If we want to live in a capitalistic society, human beings have a few choices:
1) Get a job
2) Go on the dole; and the dole is vanishing quickly
3) Find other people to support them in the manner to which they would like to become accustomed.
4) Live in absolutely abject poverty
5) Starve to death
6) Become a breathairian