 Who says you can't have it all? Not Appalachian Wireless. We know what you want. Appalachian Wireless offers the hottest smartphones and unlimited data plans. All on the region's number one network. Normally a student will go to school to learn a skill and then hope they can find a job in that field once they graduate. But a program going on now at Big Sandy Community and Technical College is working backwards from that model. In this case, the employer comes to the school and asks for students to be trained. And the best part is it's all free to the students. This week, 17 people are taking a week-long condensed course to be licensed insurance agents in the state of Kentucky. Well, when we come back from break, what we're going to do is transition over into the commercial side of the course. We have a company that's looking to hire 20 licensed agents in the state of Kentucky in property and casualty. So these are going to be remote jobs. Once they take this training and they pass their insurance exam, they're going to be able to get a job with a company that works remotely. The class is part of a program called Digital Careers Now that is funded by a $3.5 million grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission, which is focused on putting people who want to work into jobs as quickly as possible. So the model of this is to do a fast-track training program for ready-made jobs. So you have an employer looking to hire people, you have people wanting to work, but there's that barrier of that fast-track training that's not, you know, they can't meet. So our goal is to bust that barrier. Digital Careers Now works backwards from the way traditional schools operate. Instead of training people for jobs that are not available, that can become discouraged and things like that, but they're employer-driven. So we really customize what the employer is looking for to be able to train the people that's suitable for them for their jobs. Classes are not offered on a regular schedule, but on an as-needed basis when an employer reaches out with a specific need. And Birchit says it's important for potential students to look often. Okay, so one of the best places to find out about us is our Facebook page, which is Digital Careers Now. So you can check us out. You can see stories. We also have a webpage, www.digitalcareersnow.com, that you can also see those stories too. In the first year of the program, Birchit says they have been able to train and help 100 people find employment. In Painesville, I'm Shannon Deskins, EKB News.