Job Board and Illinois Skills Match
Workforce Development houses a job board that is viewed by several hundred job seekers a month. The job board gives you the opportunity to advertise your job openings for free to a large number of qualified candidates. In addition, through our close partnership with IDES we can have your job openings posted at no cost on Illinois Skills Match (ISM). ISM is an internet-based system that allows employers to specify the skills & qualifications they require, and produces candidates that match these precise requirements. Thousands of job seekers enter their skills into this database, giving you a wide range of candidates to choose from.

Recruitment and Pre-Screening
Our “Resume Bank” of job seekers allows us to quickly provide you with the resumes of qualified candidates for positions that need to be filled promptly. We can also distribute and collect your job applications from candidates to speed up the hiring process.

Facilities for Interviewing and Recruiting
Our office is located in the City Center Campus at 214 N. Ottawa St. in Joliet. We have several rooms available for interviewing or recruitment purposes: a private office, as well as state of the art training facilities including computer labs. Please consider our office when you are planning your next job fair or recruiting event.

Testing and Assessment
In today’s challenging world of work, most jobs require a certain level of basic skills such as math and reading. We have the ability to test an applicant’s math and reading levels, which can provide you with valuable information to assist in the hiring process. Additional testing/assessment services are available to help you develop your existing workforce or find the perfect job candidate.

Work Certified©
The next time you’re seeking a qualified employee who has training needs oor management and personal skills such as attendance and punctuality or skills such as reading and math, and workplace behavior skills as working together as a team, advertise for a Work Certified employee.

Work Certified employees have the knowledge and skills necessary to keep the job and get ahead on the job. By attending an intensive 2 week training Work Certified employees learn job skills basics such as:

• Reading Comprehension
• Business Tools (computer plus)
• Pre-employment
• Customer Service
• Business Writing
• Job Skills I (work maturity)
• Job Skills II (employability)
• Business Math
• General Business Knowledge