Job Service Program

Purpose 
This program functions as a labor exchange in offering employment opportunities on a no-fee basis to all Minnesotans and providing services to businesses.

Customers and Services
Customers are businesses and job seekers. Increased demand-driven business assistance includes building relationships with business decision-makers, assessing the needs of businesses, and facilitating a coordinated response with DEED staff and partners. The program also provides job preparation and placement assistance (including workshops on job-seeking skills, resume writing, interviewing, and internet job-search) to job seekers at WorkForce Centers throughout Minnesota, with special efforts made to serve unemployment insurance applicants, veterans, migrant and seasonal farm workers, and new entrants in the labor market.

Offered under the auspices of this program, MinnesotaWorks.net is an Internet-based labor exchange system linking job seekers and employers with the largest employment database in the state.

Measures - Reporting period is state fiscal year (SFY), July 1 - June 30

*In SFY 2008, the program improved its ability to record the number of job seekers using services that previously went uncounted.

Funding Source and Expenditure (in thousands)

Statutory Authority
-- Wagner-Peyser Act as amended by Public Law 97-300; U.S. Code, Title 29, Chap. 4B; Minn. Stat., Chap. 116J.401

Contact Information
Jim Korkki, Director
Phone: 651.259.7544; Fax: 651.296.3488; TTY: 651.296.3900

This information current as of January 2010.