Skills to Live By: Participant Reflections on the Value of their Sectoral Training Experience

This resource describes the third phase of a sectoral approach (targeting high priority industry clusters and related jobs) to education and training for low income and low-skilled individuals, especially to identify the successes and challenges they have faced participating and remaining in the labor market four years after training. 26 participants from three different programs were interviewed (individually and in focus groups). The study illuminates how the training influenced participants' employment path and how other life experiences have played a role. These honest, poignant experiences, successes, and challenges are heard through the participants' voices and the authors' interpretations of what they heard in the study.