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DENVER — At the Goodwill store in Castle Rock, the company’s mission is written on the wall. It reads, "Goodwill provides education, career development and employment opportunities to help Coloradoans in need achieve self-sufficiency, dignity and hope through the power of work."
It’s a mantra the vice president of human resources for Goodwill Colorado, Gary Smith, lives by.
Like many other companies in Colorado, though, Goodwill is struggling to find workers.
“This is easily the tightest labor market I've ever seen,” Smith said. “We're all struggling, we're all trying to hire from the same pool of employees.”
The company currently employs roughly 2,800 people across the state. It’s raised wages and offered more benefits, but Smith says they still need about 200 more employees to be fully operational.
While it is struggling to hire, Goodwill is doing something many other employees are not. It’s a second and third chance employer, willing to hire people who can’t get a job anywhere else because of a previous criminal conviction.
“We often will see things on backgrounds that perhaps other employers will say, "I'm sorry, we can't hire you." And Goodwill will gladly hire them,” Smith said.
It all goes back to the company’s mission. It’s also why Goodwill and three dozen other companies recently supported a bill to offer people a second chance.
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