Local residents have until Friday to apply for a Santa Fe Community College program designed to help people get entry-level jobs.
The Focus on the Future-Displaced Homemaker Program usually requires people to be unemployed, working at a part-time job or working at a job that pays minimum wage.
It also requires them to be over the age of 35 and have provided unpaid household services in the home for family members, according to the program's Web site.
Focus on the Future Coordinator Nancy Griffin said the program provides students with tools they will need to get a job, like clothes for job interviews.
"We want to help homemakers get back into the job market after they have been left, widowed or divorced," Griffin said.
The program meets at SFCC every weekday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each month, except in December.
Griffin said that people who complete the program go on to receive clerical jobs. However, some do go back to school.
"Every year we assist 130 people, and 72 of them will get jobs," Griffin said.
