you are 100% correct. there are hundreds of thousands of underemployed people right now grinding away in dead-end jobs because they graduated in an oversaturated market, got fired in one of the previous waves of tech layoffs, couldn't get interviews and gave up looking for tech jobs, etc.  give these people a clear, straightforward and obvious way to get back into stem. they can't just apply for these jobs because muh resume gap guarantees that they'll never get interviewed.
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