"The path to re-employment goes through IllinoisJobLink.com. Today,
businesses across our state seek to fill more than 120,000
positions," Rowell said. "Here, in and around Boone and Winnebago
counties, there are nearly 13,000 available jobs. In my mind, that
means there are 13,000 reasons to be optimistic." A sampling of
Rockford-area job opportunities include senior software engineer,
tool and die maker, RNs and LPNs, HVAC engineers and technicians.
Some positions provide annual wages of more than $40,000.
Rowell toured Chrysler Group LLC's Belvidere plant as well as
professional logistics company Syncreon before visiting with area
businesses at the Rockford Metropolitan Area for Planning. Business
leaders joining Rowell to endorse IDES' re-employment services
included officials from Gunite Corp., UPS and Bon Ton. Leaders with
the Rockford Chamber of Commerce and the Boone and Winnebago County
Workforce Investment Board also joined Rowell to show why northern
Illinois should be optimistic about the economy and good-paying
jobs.
Illinoisjoblink.com
is the revamped IDES employment website that links job seekers with
ready-to-hire employers. This no-cost, online career resource allows
individuals to create multiple resumes that emphasize different
talents and allows businesses to search for specific skills. The
keyword-matching technology increases the likelihood of a successful
new hire. Illinois JobLink emphasizes Illinois jobs, scrapes other
commercial job boards and compares favorably with private efforts
that cost hundreds of dollars for a single advertisement.
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Illinois added 140,700 private sector jobs since January 2010, when
job growth returned to Illinois following nearly two consecutive
years of monthly declines. Since January 2010, leading growth
sectors are professional and business services, up 74,600;
manufacturing, up 42,900; and educational and health services, up
31,800. Government has lost the most jobs since January 2010,
decreasing by 27,500.
The Rockford area has added 4,000 jobs since June 2010. The
leading sector is manufacturing, up 4,500. Government, the only
sector to show job loss, is down 1,700.
[Text from
Illinois
Department of Employment Security
file received from
the
Illinois Office of
Communication and Information]
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