You might be familiar with the Goodwill Thrift stores. The thrift stores provide an opportunity to teach people job skills and provides income for more training. We're involved in Welfare to Work. We train people to instill good work habits. We help older workers such as widows if they have to return to the job market.
People learn job skills as they collect, sort and prepare donated household goods for resale.
Goodwill also teaches job skills and provides employment through its commercial janitorial services. The agency contracts with the Texas Department of Transportation and a number of local businesses and industries to provide custodial and groundskeeping work. The ultimate goal of Goodwill is for its employees to find jobs in the private workforce. The organization finds jobs for its employees who have received training. It teaches them how to fill out an application and how to respond during an interview.