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2024 Employment Service
Mission Statement Connect our talented workforce to the education, training, and jobs necessary to keep Illinois' economy strong.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Develop and maintain connections through active employer outreach and engagement with job-seekers.
    1. To prevent exhaustion of UI benefits receipt, 65% of all RESEA UI Claimants will receive at least one staff assisted service.
    2. Increase the percent of veterans receiving staff-assisted services to 80%.
    3. Meet or exceed the negotiated goal for the entered employment rate (all) of 61% under the WIOA requirements.
    4. Meet or exceed the negotiated goal for the employment retention rate (all) of 60% under the WIOA requirements.
    5. Maintain an entered employment rate (veterans) of 53% using the WIOA requirements.
  2. Provide employment services to all Illinoisans through easily accessible technology and coordinated efforts with other service providers within a statewide network of employment centers (also known as American Job Centers.)
    1. As the state employment office for Illinois business and workers, provide no-cost human resource solutions linking hiring businesses to qualified job-seekers.
      Source of Funds Federal Title III Social Security and Employment Service Fund Statutory Authority 20 ILCS 1015/0.01-15
      Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2024 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2023 Actual Fiscal Year 2022 Actual
      Input Indicators
      Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 59,846.3 $ 58,551.2 $ 60,998.3 $ 59,678.2 $ 67,396.4
      Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 59,846.3 $ 58,551.2 $ 60,998.3 $ 59,678.2 $ 67,396.4
      Average monthly full-time equivalents 232.0 232.0 234.0 234.0 254.0
      Output Indicators
      Participants who received an ES service 26,000 25,726 20,000 19,393 15,845
      Job openings 600,000 576,940 650,000 646,343 905,223
      Federal contractor openings 320,000 310,035 310,000 305,071 731,940
      Outcome Indicators
      Entered employments (applicants) 14,000 13,029 11,000 10,333 4,735
      Veterans receiving staff-assisted services (a) 30.00% 39.80% 30.00% 23.10% 31.60%
      Participants employed 2nd quarter after exit 65.00% 69.30% 68.00% 68.40% 57.90%
      Participants employed 4th quarter after exit 66.00% 71.70% 69.00% 70.00% 54.90%
      Veterans employed 2nd quarter after exit 58.00% 59.00% 60.00% 70.00% 54.30%
      Participants' median earnings 2nd quarter after exit (in dollars) $ 8,100.00 $ 8,980.00 $ 8,500.00 $ 8,732.00 $ 6,720.00
      RESEA UI Claimants receiving staff assisted services 65.00% 76.70% 65.00% 65.90% 68.20%
      Footnotes
      The increase in services to veterans is a culmination of the Job Centers opening up to walk-ins, Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) Grant Program, the implementation of a dedicated email for veterans to request employment assistance and the increase of referrals from the VA Veterans Readiness and Employment (VR&E).

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