Join Us as We Celebrate Our New Office!

We are excited to welcome you to our new Minneapolis office! In July, Hired opened our new doors with our vision that our space can become a hub for employment readiness and training. This new space is much more accessible, participant-centered, and has technology to meet the needs of our jobseekers as they prepare for tomorrow’s workforce.

Please join us for some light refreshments, a tour of our new location, and meet Hired staff who would love your input in envisioning the future of our work! A brief program will take place around 4 pm, but guests are welcome to come and leave as they like!

About Hired

At Hired, we believe every person deserves the opportunity to build a stable and promising future. Our mission is to nurture purpose and advance economic opportunity for all through individualized employment and career services.

For 57+ years, we have specialized in supporting individuals in the Twin Cities, whose job opportunities, financial security, and stability have been shaped by historic and systemic inequities and situational barriers.

Formerly incarcerated people helped create Hired in 1968 to level the playing field for people who, like themselves, faced barriers to securing employment. Today, we maintain a solid focus on preparing people for full participation in the economy with family-sustaining jobs that offer benefits and the potential for building a career and equitable wealth.

Hired provides individualized coaching and skill-building at every step of an individual's journey, while supporting them as they stabilize their situations, meet basic needs, and navigate systems of support.

Our four workforce program areas serve:(a) opportunity youth; (b) parents receiving public assistance; (c) people who have low-income, are un/underemployed or have experienced a layoff; and (d) people seeking career training to enter positions in high-demand sectors, including advanced manufacturing, healthcare, and human services.

In addition to career readiness, digital literacy, and financial wellness services, we offer trainings in high-demand sectors and partner with educational institutions and employers to provide other training, certificates, and credentials.

Strategic Plans: Our 2023-2026 Strategic Plan is grounded in participant/community input and has five goals: (a) skills for meaningful work; (b) expanded holistic services; (c) community voice; (d) deepen employer partnerships; (e) and organizational strength and capacity. We have detailed implementation plans and metrics to monitor progress and ensure goals are met.

Advancing Racial Equity: Advancing Equity is one of our four core values, and our target population (nearly 70% BIPOC), program design, organizational culture, and staff development are structured to improve access and outcomes for people who have experienced historic and current exclusion.

We work to advance equity through: (a) collaborations to drive systems change; (b) work with employers to create workplaces where all can thrive, (c) investing in our team so we reflect our community and uphold DEI in our work and our organizational culture; and (d) centering community voices in decisions and services. We know the importance of having staff our jobseekers can identify with; among our staff are immigrants, veterans, people across the physical ability, faith, and gender identity spectrums, and who represent the communities we serve. Amongst our 100+ staff, 6 languages are spoken, in addition to English; and we are increasing BIPOC representation among our staff, board, and leadership.

Hired seeks to increase economic opportunity for all by assisting jobseekers facing barriers to employment with quality services to prepare for, secure, and retain jobs and careers. The 3,700+ individuals Hired serves each year are at varying points on their career path. Our progress indicators cover the extent to which participants will:

Achieve stability and meet their basic needs
Identify careers that align with their skills and interests with an employment plan
Build marketable and relevant skills in high-growth sectors
Gain skills, industry-recognized certificates/credentials
Secure and retain employment
Earn a living wage

Hired tracks these and other program data in a real-time database with visual dashboards and reports to fuel deeper analysis, programmatic responsiveness, and continuous improvement. The program directors regularly review and analyze data to ensure performance objectives are on track. We will also partner with evaluators—The Improve Group and i3works—to gather qualitative data, which is reviewed alongside data in WorkforceOne, the state’s mandated database, and our in-house Data for Impact Database to inform continuous program improvements.

Hired’s work is rooted in participant-centered coaching and support to ensure everyone, regardless of background, can reach career goals with family-sustaining wages. In FY25, Hired:

Coached 5,157 participants to find, prepare for, and secure family-sustaining employment.
Provided or connected 1,657 participants to work readiness training opportunities.
Worked with participants to acquire over 450 credentials, including High School Diplomas/GEDs, post-secondary degrees, occupational certificates, technical licenses, and industry-recognized credentials.
Connected 1,135 participants to training, internships, and work experiences to build in-demand skills.
Provided financial wellness education and coaching to 400 people from across Hired’s program areas.
Increased family stability, which benefited over 10,500 children.
Worked with 1,279 participants to secure employment at an average hourly wage of $27.67 – an increase of $4+ over their wage at enrollment.

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