There are several resources available to assist workers, employers, and workforce professionals in achieving their career, employment, and training goals in Illinois. Local and statewide organizations can utilize the Illinois workNet Service Finder Tool to enhance their outreach efforts and ensure communities can easily connect to available services.
Illinois workNet Partners are locations in Illinois communities that offer in-person assistance to help individuals and employers achieve their career, employment, and training goals.
Work Support Referrals help people who need specialized assistance and support that may be offered to help people get into the workforce or keep their jobs. They are an essential part of assistance and complement service locations.
All the locations in the Service Finder highlight the audiences and the services they offer. Audiences include:
Service areas include a variety of areas including:
Adding your partner location or referral information to the Service Finder will enhance your efforts and allow your community to easily connect to your services.
Illinois workNet service partners can add their organization's services or referral information to the Service Finder Tool. Submitting this information is free for any partner with an Illinois workNet account. By adding your organization to the Service Finder, you can connect with potential customers in your community who would benefit with the services your organization provides.
Information included in the Service Finder should fall under one of these two categories:
Here are steps you will need to take to submit your page to the Service Finder:
All entries are reviewed to ensure they are legitimate.
Once your site is approved, the designated primary and secondary contacts (if applicable) can manage service or referral information at any time. We understand that accurate information is important, so we will send out an automatic email notice every six months to make sure the information is accurate.
To access the Service Finder administration area:
Step-by-step instructions can be found under the Resources section of this page
Once your site has been set up and approved within the Illinois workNet Service Finder, the designated primary and secondary contacts will have the ability to generate a site-specific URL. The site-specific URL allows each site to track their customers' usage of Illinois workNet. The site-specific URL should be set as the homepage on the computers your customers use, typically in your resource room.
Once the site-specific URL has been set as the home page, it will begin tracking the usage of workNet. The designated primary and secondary contacts of the location can access the usage report within the Service Finder from the Usage Report tab. LWIA managers and coordinators have access to see the counts for all sites within their LWIA, and DCEO state level staff have the ability to see the counts for all sites within the Service Finder. For additional information on generating a unique URL and using the report check out the Site-specific URL Instructions.