The Illinois state government has made it very easy for job seekers to find employment in the state of Illinois. The Illinois Department of Employment Services has launched its own website to provide online information. This is a government-operated website and features job listings for residents or future residents who are interested in the job opportunities available there. This site also caters to foreigners who are sponsored by companies in the state.
The Illinois Department of Employment Services also known as IDES provides information related to all aspects of employment in the state of Illinois. It is the official website of the Department of Employment services of the state of Illinois. Those who desire to gather information can just log on to the Net and search through the site. IDES is a very comprehensive website that has a lot on offer for those wishing to train for better jobs or find jobs of their choice, be they temporary or seasonal. One is able to read up on the other factors like unemployment concerns and other problems the state is dealing with. Important information on lay-off laws, workers’ Comp in the state, migrant worker guidelines also find a mention on the Illinois Department of Employment Services website. It gives the individual an opportunity to make a thorough research regarding employment conditions in the state of Illinois and prepare him for working there.
The first step is to visit the IDES website. The site’s opening page provides you with the current employment news and the employment situation during the month. The site has a resume bank known as the Illinois Skills Match. This resume bank allows the applicants to match a job that has been posted on the site, to their skill sets. The person is required to fill in a form on the site, stating his skills and job background. This is a format for the uploading a resume on to the website. The skills and qualifications mentioned in the resumes are then matched with employers who are searching for personnel with these skill sets. This service of matching jobs to applicants is done free of cost. One can also browse through the Illinois Department of Employment Services’ job bank where there are job postings within the state of Illinois. If, by any chance, one does not find anything suitable, there are links provided to other job sites which may be followed up for a better selection of employment opportunities.
Unemployment topped 10 percent in 15 states and the District of Columbia last month, according to federal data released Friday. The rate in Michigan surpassed 15 percent, the first time any state hit that mark since 1984.
The Federal Reserve this week projected that the national unemployment rate, currently at a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, will pass 10 percent by the end of the year. Most Fed policymakers said it could take “five or six years” for the economy and the labor market to get back on a path of long-term health. To get there, consumers must return to a regular spending groove and housing prices need to start rising again.
Home to the nation’s struggling auto makers, Michigan has been clobbered by lost factory jobs. Its jobless rate of 15.2 percent in June was the highest in the country. Still, the U.S. Labor Department said it’s the first time in 25 years that any state has suffered an unemployment rate of at least 15 percent. In 1984, it was West Virginia.
The state unemployment report underscores the damage that the longest recession since World War II has inflicted on companies, workers and communities. The other 14 states where unemployment topped 10 percent last month were: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Tennessee.
In May, the jobless rate topped 10 percent in 13 states and the District of Columbia. Alabama and Georgia joined the list in June. The states with the lowest unemployment rates in June were: North Dakota at 4.2 percent, Nebraska at 5 percent and South Dakota at 5.1 percent. While Michigan’s rate was the highest in the country in June, the record-high for the state was 16.9 percent in November 1982.
Therefore if you’re unemployed and haven’t already done so, by all means – file for unemployment.
Tina Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News wrote a column titled, “Mexican visitor’s lament” — 10/25/07.
She interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while visiting Denver last week. Hernandez said, “They (illegal aliens) pay rent, buy groceries, buy clothes… what happens to your country’s economy if 20 million people go away?”
That’s a good question it deserves an answer. Over 80 percent of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America? The answers may surprise you!
* In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico, it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupted hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominate language again.
* In Colorado, 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and grand-kids would move back “home,” mostly to Mexico. That would save Coloradans an estimated $2 billion (other experts say $7 BIL) annually in taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration costs. It means 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone.
* Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals.
* Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67 percent drop out/flunk out rate via thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41 different languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from our gridlocked cities in Colorado. Denver’s four percent unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
* In Florida, 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State back to America, the rule of law and English.
* In Chicago, Illinois, 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free experience.
* If 20 million illegal aliens returned “home” the U.S. economy would return to the rule of law. Employers would hire legal American citizens at a living wage. Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes because they wouldn’t be working off the books. That would result in an additional $401 billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for local
state and city coffers.
* No more push ‘1′ for Spanish or ‘2′ for English. No more confusion in American schools that now must content with over 100 languages that degrade the educational system for American kids. Our overcrowded schools would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in ESL and free breakfasts and lunches.
* We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate our country. In cities like L.A., 20,000 members of the “18th Street Gang” would vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from
Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters!
* Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving American deaths by illegal aliens!
* Over $80 billion annually wouldn’t return to their home countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further drains America’s economy which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt.
* At least 400,000 babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California, Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being bankrupted out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act. Americans wouldn’t suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our country brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders.
* Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and grid locking our cities. It would also put the “progressives” on the horns of a dilemma; illegal aliens and their families cause 11 percent of our greenhouse gases.