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Looking For Work

Work One Northwest Indiana
Regional Employment Assistance Services, help with UPLINK CSS and other services.
105 E Drexel Pkwy Ste. 1, Rensselaer, IN 47978
Call: 219-866-4330 or Text: 574-444-2664 Fax: 219-866-2746 

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, office is open by Appointment Only

Hours: Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri 8am-4:30pm | Thu 10am-4:30pm
Other offices in Morocco, Winamac, Knox and Michigan City

Indiana Dept. of Workforce Development
Job matching and other services

Manpower
(219) 866-2121

Express Employment Professionals (Jasper, Newton, White, Pulaski and Starke counties)
207 W Washington St, Rensselaer, IN 47978
Rensselaer, IN 47978
(219) 964-4222
Hours: 8-5 Mon-Fri

For Lake and Porter County job opportunities, see Express Employment Professionals NW Indiana

Resumes

LinkedIn 
More than 300 million professionals have a page on LinkedIn, the premiere social media site for professional networking. Add your job and career history in easy-to-use forms and build an online profile that you can share with prospective employers or use to build your career network.

LinkedIn Labs Resume Builder syncs with your LinkedIn site and allows you to restyle your information into various print templates at the touch of a button.

Canva
Create a quick yet stunning resume with these web-based templates. Create an account and save your changes for future use, or just print and go.

Indiana Career Connect
A complete set of employment tools for job seekers in Indiana. Search jobs, create resumes, find education and training. To access services, you must apply for an Indiana Career Connect account with the state’s Department of Workforce Development. This is the official job search site for individuals receiving unemployment or applying for work through the state’s WorkOne centers.

Downloadable Templates For MS Word

50+ resume samples in MS Word | Hloom.com (Click images for free downloads; build your own option may result in fees.)

Job Search

Linked In Jobs
Look for jobs in your area, or set up preferences to get a tailored set of recommendations.

Indiana Career Connect
Official job search engine of Indiana Work One.

CareerBuilder.com
Owned by Gannett Co, Inc., Tribune Company, The McClatchy Company, and Microsoft Corp., CareerBuilder offers a vast online and print network to help job seekers connect with employers. CareerBuilder.com powers the career sites for more than 9,000 Web sites, including 140 newspapers and broadband portals such as MSN and AOL.

Linkup.com
Job search engine that only lists jobs taken directly from company websites, typically unadvertised outside of company websites. All job listings are from real companies. You won't find work-at-home scams, recruiters, or staffing agencies. If you choose to apply to a position you do so directly to the employer.

Monster.com
Monster pioneered the business of digital recruiting in 1994, and now focus world-wide with a presence in approximately 50 countries around the world. Owns several focused recruitment and career sites including Military.com, FastWeb.com and Admissions.com.'

Zip Recruiter
The #1 rated job search app on Android & iOS with over 7 million active job seekers each month and over 40 million job alert email subscribers.

Talent.com
Talent.com (formerly Neuvoo) is a job search engine that indexes jobs directly from companies' career websites, placement agencies and job boards. Job seekers can search using a city, state, company, industry, etc., and find all relevant jobs.

Indeed.com
Indeed has over 50 million unique visitors and 1 billion job searches per month. Since 2004, Indeed has given job seekers free access to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites and job boards. Indeed is a privately held company founded by Paul Forster and Rony Kahan, with investors including The New York Times Company, Allen & Company, and Union Square Ventures.

SnagAJob.com
National employment service based in Richmond, Virgina, that advertises hourly positions from cashiers to fast food and more. Has a whole category of jobs for teens.

Jobs for Teens (About.com)
This guide gives good advice about where to look for work as a  teenager, how to prepare for your first job, and at what age you can look for a job.

Adult Education

HiSET Indiana High School Equivalency Test info.

Indiana Career Training and Adult Education website (IN.gov)

Special Needs Employment Assistance

Comprehensive Developmental Centers (CDC) Heartland Employment Services (219) 583-8227

Unemployment

UPLINK - Indiana Unemployment Claim Form

Indiana Dept. of Workforce Development

Indiana Employment Statistics

Hoosiers by the Numbers
A site of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development