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Career College

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Career College

Published: Mon, 9 Nov 2009

Description: On the Job Hunt: Vocational schools a popular choice for unemployed

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" Paid to -- outlaw I'm here in Queens new York at Lincoln tech one of their 43 campuses that spread out all over seventeen states. And across the country at schools just like this career colleges profits are way up and that's because of record high enrollment now while it's -- enroll at a career college. To a delegate specific skill for a specific jobs that you go to study culinary arts. Being -- to site health sciences or as -- can see here you go to learn how to fix cars because in this uncertain economy there's a lot of jobs -- that but don't take my lower court. I've got an instructor here Steve Mara -- things are really bad across the country and economy but you guys have more people than ever why is that."

" Well you -- itself because you know what we doing is we provide students with the knowledge they need to either enter or reenter the workforce you know wherever they -- So lot of these people had jobs and something else -- out of here a lot of them yeah a lot of comment from unemployment. Or you know other places just being out of work you know it's it's very hard right now to get a job especially without training. Right but you guys train people and I mean I know that 86%. Of the people to graduate from this program. Get a job. Why is that even when things are so that well the truth is and this is what I tell my intro students know whether you're driving to work every day or you're driving -- the unemployment office for -- you know and people need their cars. You know and this is a booming industry right now. That's very good way to put very insightful Steve thanks very much -- say thank you very much."

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