Looking For Work
Work One Northwest Indiana [1]
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 [2]
Job matching and other services
Manpower [3]
(219) 866-2121
Express Employment Professionals [4] (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 [5]
Resumes
LinkedIn [6]
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 [7]
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 [8]
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 [9].
Downloadable Templates For MS Word
50+ resume samples in MS Word [10] | Hloom.com (Click images for free downloads; build your own option may result in fees.)
Job Search
Linked In Jobs [11]
Look for jobs in your area, or set up preferences to get a tailored set of recommendations.
Indiana Career Connect [12]
Official job search engine of Indiana Work One.
CareerBuilder.com [13]
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 [14]
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 [15]
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 [16]
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 [17]
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 [18]
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 [19]
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 [20] (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 [21] Indiana High School Equivalency Test info.
Indiana Career Training and Adult Education website [22] (IN.gov)
Special Needs Employment Assistance
Comprehensive Developmental Centers (CDC) [23] Heartland Employment Services (219) 583-8227
Unemployment
UPLINK - Indiana Unemployment Claim Form [24]
Indiana Dept. of Workforce Development [2]
Indiana Employment Statistics
Hoosiers by the Numbers [25]
A site of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development