Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

How are homeschooled graduates doing in the workplace? Find out today on Home School Heartbeat with your host, the president of HSLDA, Michael Smith.

Mike Smith:


Each year more and more homeschoolers march up onto a platform, receive a diploma, and hurl their mortarboards into the air. Most go off to college, but a substantial number of homeschool graduates choose to avoid institutional education altogether and go straight from home to the work force. How are these homeschool graduates doing at getting jobs?


The good news is that homeschoolers who have made it into the working world are getting high marks from their employers. Fortunately, each new graduating class is seeing the barriers stacked against homeschooling fall.


Many businesses have tapped in to the homeschool community to fill openings. Homeschoolers are perfect for many different jobs: they view work as an extension of their education and are available part time and at odd hours.


Homeschoolers recently caught the attention of the Society for Human Resource Management, which publishes HR Magazine. They report that employers who have hired homeschoolers are generally enthusiastic about them. Chick-fil-A, a nationwide fast food chain, is so happy with its homeschool hires that it actively recruits them. According to Andy Lorenzen, who helps recruit Chick-fil-A's 30,000 front-line workers, homeschoolers are a unique source of talent. "They're smart, ambitious, and very driven," Lorenzen reports. "They are loyal, diligent, and have a good work ethic."


It's great to see the working world discovering what we already know--homeschooling works! And until next time, I'm Mike Smith.