Job Service Program - Annual Program Summary
Purpose
This program functions as a labor exchange, offering employment opportunities on a no-fee basis to all Minnesotans and providing services to businesses.
Customers and Services
This program assists both 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 claimants, veterans, migrant and seasonal farm workers, and persons with disabilities.
Offered under the auspices of this program, Minnesota's Job Bank--an Internet-based labor exchange system linking job seekers and employers with the largest employment database in the state--was rebuilt to enhance and improve its performance; the new job bank, MinnesotaWorks.net, was launched shortly after July 1, 2007.
Measures - Reporting period is state fiscal year (SFY), July 1 - June 30
SFY 2005 |
SFY 2006 |
SFY 2007 |
|
| Number of job seekers registered and receiving a reportable service | 94,964 |
73,481 |
65,095 |
| Number of employer job openings listed | 319,203 |
398,392 |
502,647 |
Funding Source and Allocation
The program is federally funded under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act
and receives approximately $12,500,000 annually.
Statutory Authority
--
Wagner-Peyser Act as amended by Public Law 97-300;
U.S. Code, Title 29, Chapter 4B
-- Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 116J.401
Contact Information
Jim Korkki, Director
Phone: 651.259.7544; Fax: 651.296.3488;
TTY: 651.296.3900
E-mail: Jim.Korkki@state.mn.us
Website: www.deed.state.mn.us/js/
This information current as of January 2008. For more information on DEED programs, see the State of Minnesota budget pages.