Photos: Corey Kilgannon/The New York Times
Strive, is an advocacy group located in East Harlem that is dedicated to helping job seekers get a fresh start. Financed by New York State and contributions from private foundations, Strive has been flooded in recent months with people seeking jobs.
“Strive offers something of an employment makeover: interview etiquette is taught, and do-rags and sneakers are replaced by suits and ties. One vestige of street life that is trickier to shed is the tattoo.”
Strive officials have added a lesson in how to cover up conspicuous tattoos with makeup. A makeup artist, Melanie Swanson, volunteered to give a tutorial in camouflaging the distracting skin art at a job readiness workshop at an office building on East 123rd Street on Tuesday afternoon.
Read more: New York Times
Learn more about Strive: Website
ZPP
April 2, 2009
Love to hear people helping people. The Tattoo thing is interesting. It is about judgment. Should people be judged for their tatoos? If they have the job skills it is a bias.