


Finding the right fit
Thousands of displaced workers have turned to Sinclair Community College to help them find their next career.
Kevin DeBord has easily found work through the years as a machinist and die maker. At age 40 he was making a solid living and raising two teenagers with his wife, as he followed in the tool-and-die career of his father and uncles.
But last year, laid off from a local machine shop, DeBord found himself struggling to find jobs that he was qualified to do; the companies wanted workers with technology skills that he just didn’t have. At his brother’s urging, he took a tour of Sinclair Community College. Before he knew it, he was a midlife college student.
“I have 20 years’ experience, but it’s from the school of hard knocks,” he said. “Now I have to produce a certificate to even get looked at.”
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