BEST Hospitality Training recently celebrated the opening of its new training center at the Omni Seaport Hotel in Boston. This training opened during the pandemic and is equipped with state of the art facilities. Students are able to access training at the
ARPA funds will provide more than 4,600 projected job placements in Healthcare, Clean Energy, and Child Care and support services to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color residents in the Greater Boston area over the next three years Mayor Michelle
When David Ramos attended a City Academy info session at the community health center where he worked, he couldn’t quite believe the sales pitch: Free job training to become an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)? A path to working for Boston
Each immigrant community faces its own unique employment obstacles. For immigrants of the African and Haitian diaspora, a persistent challenge is “brain drain” – the underemployment of professionals with foreign degrees and high-caliber work experience. To address this disparity, the
More than 1,300 Boston Public Schools (BPS) families have earned a total of $32,825 for their children’s futures through a special New Year’s promotional offer from Boston Saves, the City of Boston’s children’s savings account program. Boston Saves announced
Boston Saves, the children’s savings account program from the City of Boston and Boston Public Schools (BPS), is making a special New Year’s offer to families of BPS K2-2nd grade students. Families who log in to the program’s online savings
The City of Boston is launching a new multilingual marketing campaign to support the revitalization of Boston’s restaurant industry. The two-pronged campaign – which will encompass radio, digital, social, and print formats – will encourage job-seekers to pursue opportunities in restaurant work,
In their largest disbursement of at least the past 15 years, the trustees of the Neighborhood Jobs Trust (NJT) approved the dispersal of $2.7 million to 30 local job training and education programs that serve low- and middle-income residents. These
Like many new immigrants, Supinah Hodges was excited to start her first job in the United States. She had learned some English, taken computer classes, and finally gotten a job at a Dunkin Donuts in Cambridge. The hourly wages surpassed
The Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development is collaborating with the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development (OED) to create a new Restaurant Revitalization Fund to assist local restaurants in their reopening and recovery from COVID-19. The fund will provide these businesses