{"id":80642,"date":"2022-10-15T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=80642"},"modified":"2022-10-19T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:12:51","slug":"job-assistance-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/job-assistance-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"How Job Assistance Programs Help Solve Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is the key to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/poverty-alleviation-programs\/\">alleviating poverty<\/a>? How will job assistance programs help the poor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One solution that Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, authors of <em>When Helping Hurts<\/em>, offer to reduce poverty is to set up job preparation programs in local communities. These programs can help improve skill sets and create job interview opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read below to learn how job assistance programs are the key to poverty alleviation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-job-preparation\"><strong>Job Preparation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Corbett and Fikkert, <strong>one of the most effective interventions churches can offer is job assistance programs, which serve to address the poor\u2019s lack of education and training<\/strong>. They advise that an effective job assistance program has several components:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, it should train participants in soft skills such as teamwork and problem-solving from a biblical viewpoint. Second, it should address important job preparation skills like work ethic, punctuality, and appropriate dress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third, there should be a group of mentors who engage with participants one-on-one to encourage them, get to know them, and help them solve problems as they come up. Ideally, your mentoring team should be large enough that each participant can meet alternately with about five different mentors. This spreads out the mentoring workload so that individual mentors are less likely to feel overwhelmed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Typically, church members helping with a poverty alleviation program are volunteers, not paid employees of the church. Based on other sources, ideally you should structure your program so that each volunteer\u2019s time commitment is about 100 hours per year.<strong> <\/strong>In <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/give-and-take\"><em>Give and Take<\/em><\/a>, Adam Grant points out that <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/give-and-take\/chapter-6#otherish-strategies-for-personal-happiness\">people who volunteer between 100 and 800 hours of their time per year get the most satisfaction<\/a> from their volunteer work. He also reports that volunteering up to 100 hours per year correlates with a measurable improvement in health, but the improvement plateaus above 100 hours.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pairing participants with multiple mentors also allows them to network with more people, which opens up more job opportunities: There\u2019s a greater likelihood that one of a participant\u2019s mentors knows someone who knows of a job opening that\u2019s a good fit for the participant if the participant has several mentors than if he just has one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourth, while your church may not have the resources to teach \u201chard\u201d (technical) skills like welding or computer programming, you can help the poor pursue further education at vocational schools and community colleges. There they can learn \u201chard\u201d skills and obtain degrees or certificates that will improve their employment options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, try to get local businesses to agree to interview everyone who graduates from your job preparedness program. This will improve their chances of job placement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Getting Jobs Versus Getting <\/strong><strong><em>Better<\/em><\/strong><strong> Jobs<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A 2015 study found that, in America at least, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/06\/150625161435.htm#:~:text=as%20candidates%20discuss%20ways%20to%20help,group%20makes%20this%20goal%20more%20realistic\">most poor people have jobs<\/a>. They\u2019re not poor because they\u2019re unemployed, but rather because the jobs they have don\u2019t adequately cover their expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to that study, poverty alleviation efforts in the United States had focused on reducing unemployment, often through job preparedness programs similar to what Corbett and Fikkert propose. Thus, it\u2019s worth evaluating the authors\u2019 job preparedness program principles to consider whether they\u2019re useful for getting poor people <em>better<\/em> jobs or just for finding jobs for the unemployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Teamwork and Problem-Solving:<\/strong> These skills tend to be increasingly important the more responsibility (and compensation) a job entails. So this will likely still be effective for helping the poor get better jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Work Ethic, Punctuality, and Dress: <\/strong>At a basic level, these are prerequisites for almost any job, so they\u2019re geared more toward just getting a job. However, you might be able to modify this kind of soft-skills curriculum to help workers get better positions, because things like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/building-a-positive-workplace-culture\/\">workplace culture<\/a> and dress code are often different for higher-paying jobs, such as managerial positions, than they are for minimum-wage jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Multiple Mentors:<\/strong> This advice remains important because networking is just as useful for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/career-progression-plan\/\">career advancement<\/a> as it is for getting a job in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Promoting Technical Training:<\/strong> This might take on proportionately greater importance if the goal is to help the working poor get <em>better<\/em> jobs because most higher-paying jobs require some kind of specialized knowledge. It might also change the focus of training because some skills and degrees are worth more than others to employers. For example, a radiology technician earns more than a graphic designer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Local Business Involvement:<\/strong> As originally presented, this seems tailored more to helping people get jobs in the first place. In principle, it might still be effective, but the goal of helping people find better jobs instead of entry-level positions would likely change the types of businesses that you need to network with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the key to alleviating poverty? How will job assistance programs help the poor? One solution that Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, authors of When Helping Hurts, offer to reduce poverty is to set up job preparation programs in local communities. These programs can help improve skill sets and create job interview opportunities. 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