City-based nonprofit tackles veteran, underserved unemployment

Metro New York recently featured Workforce Opportunity Services and the work we are doing to align unemployed veterans with transformative career opportunities. The article highlights how WOS is opening up career pathways for the veteran community and the importance of cultivating a diverse workforce. Check out an excerpt from the article below:

The percentage of unemployed veterans hit an average all-time low of 4.5 percent last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but that certainly wasn’t always the case, which is why Bronx native Dr. Arthur Langer set out to create a systemic change when he founded Workforce Opportunity Service in 2005.

“There is a diversity and inclusion problem in the current climate,” Langer said, “It’s difficult for companies to find workers in this category, and we’re going to have an unemployment problem if we don’t deal with this shortfall.”

City-based Workforce Opportunity Services develops untapped talent from the veteran and underserved communities and places them with companies looking to diversify. WOS operates in more than 40 cities in the U.S., France and The Netherlands and has placed more than 3,800 workers at 60-plus companies worldwide.

Read the full article here.