Hard Skills & Soft Skills: What’s the Difference?

Apr 5, 2016 | Skillpoint Alliance

Hard skills and soft skills are complementary. The right combination of each can make you an irresistible employee, or potential candidate, for employers. Leah Arnold-Smeets from PayScale elaborates further in an article when she says, “It’s easy to find job...

4 Tips to Help Your Job Search

Mar 23, 2016 | Skillpoint Alliance, Workforce

Job searching can be an emotionally draining and time consuming experience. Getting rejection emails, phone calls or even no reply at all can wear down even the most optimistic job seeker. If you are just beginning the job hunt or have been searching for a long time,...

Gateway Graduate Highlight: Tom Saunders

Feb 11, 2016 | Skillpoint Alliance

Tom Saunders was taught the value of education and responsibility at an early age. Growing up in Erie, Pennsylvania, Tom recalls the required order of events each day after school: finish your homework, do your chores, and then you can go out to play. The day...

Celebrate the Holidays with Skillpoint!

Nov 30, 2015 | Events, News, Skillpoint Alliance

At Skillpoint, we envision a community where every person is given the opportunity for success through access to education and training. Many of the people we serve experience significant barriers to success, and are looking for a way to overcome. Skillpoint has the...