Skills for Chicagoland’s Future (SCF) is a public-private partnership working to match businesses that have current, unmet hiring needs with qualified, unemployed or underemployed job seekers. More than 1,300 unemployed job seekers have been hired through partnerships with over 40 employers since SCF launched. Additionally, over 170 unemployed job seekers have been enrolled in train-to-hire programs which result in immediate employment upon successful completion of the programs. SCF’s employer partners have signed commitments to hire more than 1,000 unemployed job seekers in 2015. As a national thought leader in workforce development, SCF has been tapped as a resource demonstrating the need for business intermediaries both locally and nationally.