Making lemonade out of the unemployment lemons

Today, I was reading Time Magazine’s article, “Jobless in America: Is Double-Digit Unemployment Here to Stay?” and kept thinking about the issues that America faces – that sound reminiscent to the world that the Japanese population faced in the Nineties (their “Lost Decade”).

One of the reasons why we have been building Cultivate New York is to combat this issue – to ensure that double-digit employment is not here to stay. Instead of bemoaning the fact that there are no jobs available – we are talking about the hidden opportunities that people are not seeing – because of internal business issues.

Cultivate New York has first organizational meeting

A group of 15 people gathered to bring about NYC's first Unpaid Job Fair together. Started from a conversation on nextNYdigital's mailing list, this group of people began to bring about the first Cultivate New York event.

An inspirational video from 1993