New Start Career Network Profiled in ROI-NJ Story

June 30, 2021

Article features comments from Carl Van Horn.

A recent ROI-NJ article, “Helping Hand: Rutgers, Businesses Team up to Get Older, Unemployed Workers Back into Workforce,” examines the Heldrich Center’s New Start Career Network (NSCN), a program that assists long-term unemployed older workers in New Jersey. In addition to discussing NSCN’s services, the article features comments from Heldrich Center director Carl Van Horn, Ph.D. about the genesis of the program, the challenges older workers face while searching for employment, and how the program has helped its members. Also featured is James Canterbury, a principal in EY’s consulting practice, who discusses EY’s involvement with NSCN as well as some lessons for older workers looking to get back into the workforce.