Job Search and Reemployment Self-Assessments for
Developing Plans Tailored to Each Individual's Needs and Goals

Guide job seekers and the unemployed to employment with best-practice self-assessments used across the USA in workforce agencies, employment programs, and career centers. Our assessments, cited by a U.S. Department of Labor report as innovative employment tools, assist job seekers, dislocated workers, and UI claimants with informative employment and reemployment strategies and personalized job search planning and guidance.

Learn more about LEAP and YES, two workforce development assessment tools to use with your job seekers.

   

Layoff-to-Employment Action Planner (LEAP)

Assesses Diverse Needs and Concerns of Dislocated Workers and UI Claimants

Your Employment Search
(YES)

Assesses Unique Needs, Issues, and Barriers of Job Seekers

The best-selling LEAP helps dislocated workers and
UI claimants assess and cope with the 8 most important issues faced after a layoff. In 3 easy steps, workers rank their job and life barriers and create a reemployment plan tailored to their needs.

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YES measures and transforms job-search readiness and effectiveness in new job seekers to the long-term unemployed. YES teaches productive job-seeking skills in 5 key areas to immediately boost the job search. In 3 steps, job hunters assess their job-search methods and develop an active and personalized employment search strategy.

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Career Action Blog

Maximum Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Unemployment Insurance (UI) Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) Grant Awards by State

From U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration

State                               FY 2019 Funding Limit                   FY 2020 Funding Limit

ALABAMA                      $994,163                                           $1,192,995

ALASKA                            $346,369                                           $415,643

ARIZONA                          $885,821                                           $1,062,986

ARKANSAS                        $542,018                                           $650,421

CALIFORNIA                        $15,467,355                                     $18,560,826

COLORADO                        $496,100                                           $595,320

CONNECTICUT                  $1,856,915                                       $2,228,298

DELAWARE                       $724,438                                           $796,881

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA      $771,319                                           $848,451

FLORIDA                            $6,928,506                                       $7,621,357

GEORGIA                          $1,019,150                                       $1,222,980

HAWAII                              $1,245,906                                       $1,370,497

IDAHO                                $875,294                                           $962,823

ILLINOIS                                $1,665,945                                          $1,999,134

INDIANA                            $5,425,160                                       $5,967,676

IOWA                                $1,895,736                                       $2,274,884

KANSAS                             $896,970                                           $1,076,364

KENTUCKY                         $1,102,519                                       $1,323,023

LOUISIANA                        $2,057,299                                       $2,263,029

MAINE                            $868,626                                             $955,489

MARYLAND                     $1,478,014                                       $1,773,617

MASSACHUSETTS              $7,259,554                                       $7,985,509

MICHIGAN                        $2,634,528                                          $3,161,433

MINNESOTA                     $1,810,521                                       $2,172,626

MISSISSIPPI                         $1,200,680                                          $1,320,748

MISSOURI                         $945,060                                           $1,134,072

MONTANA                    $796,868                                             $876,554

NEBRASKA                       $616,516                                           $678,168

NEVADA                         $2,584,481                                       $2,842,929

NEW HAMPSHIRE              $1,616,108                                       $1,777,718

NEW JERSEY                     $2,355,706                                       $2,826,848

NEW MEXICO                    $721,970                                           $844,874

NEW YORK                       $24,032,798                                     $26,436,077

NORTH CAROLINA             $5,386,081                                       $5,924,689

NORTH DAKOTA                $592,813                                           $652,094

OHIO                               $4,015,514                                       $4,818,617

OKLAHOMA                       $1,159,258                                       $1,275,183

OREGON                           $5,741,685                                       $6,315,854

PENNSYLVANIA                  $1,840,561                                       $2,208,674

PUERTO RICO                    $397,284                                           $476,741

RHODE ISLAND                  $1,373,776                                       $1,511,154

SOUTH CAROLINA              $1,556,260                                       $1,867,511

SOUTH DAKOTA                 $432,943                                           $476,237

TENNESSEE                       $3,258,519                                       $3,584,371

TEXAS                              $9,348,178                                       $11,217,813

UTAH                               $2,152,773                                       $2,368,050

VERMONT                         $864,079                                           $950,487

VIRGIN ISLANDS                $419,985                                           $461,984

VIRGINIA                          $2,024,343                                       $2,226,777

WASHINGTON                   $11,439,335                                     $12,583,269

WEST VIRGINIA                 $407,096                                           $488,516

WISCONSIN                      $3,609,976                                       $3,970,974

WYOMING                       $495,112                                           $644,623

 


By Career Action Resources, LLC

Spelling and grammar mistakes can send resumes to the trash bin. Share the following tips from Career Action Resources with your job hunters to help them avoid this fate: 

  • Run spell check. Spell check can miss mistakes, but it also catches them. 
  • Check words you think may be misspelled. If a word doesn't seem right, look it up.
  • Use the right word, part one. Any word that has another spelling should get your attention. That includes its and it's; their, they're, and there; too, to, and two; than and then. Be sure you have chosen the correct word. 
  • Use the right word, part two: Some words often are confused. So, for example, if you write loose, make sure you didn't mean lose. If you intend to say formerly, confirm you didn't write formally.
  • Read your resume backward. This step will help you spot misspellings and missing words because you have to concentrate on one word at a time.
  • Read your resume out loud. This action will make missing words or repeated words stand out. 
  • Let it rest before sending. After you write something, don't send it immediately if possible. Time away from your writing often reveals errors.
  • Copy and paste. When you complete online applications, be careful about your spelling and grammar. If possible, copy and paste information from your double-checked resume, rather than risking a typo.

Need more help in guiding job hunters? Take a look at the Your Employment Search (YES) tool by Career Action Resources, LLC. 


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Looking for resources and guidance to help your state meet Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) evaluation requirements?

Check out the following information described on WorkforceGPS, a website for workforce professionals that is sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL).

These resources, linked on WorkforceGPS, offer evidence-based guidance and tools for studying and implementing RESEA evaluation requirements:

  • RESEA Evaluation Resource List provides studies and tools that might help RESEA administrators and staff understand and produce evidence about their RESEA interventions.
  • RESEA topic area tab on CLEAR highlights studies in the reemployment evidence base relevant to the RESEA program. 
  • TEGL 06-19 and UIPL 01-20 explain Expectations for States Implementing the RESEA Program Requirements for Conducting Evaluations and Building Program Evidence.

USDOL Research of LEAP by Career Action Resources for REA - RESEA.jpg - Copy 1Read more information and learn about other RESEA Evaluation and Evidence tools. 

In a “high causal evidence” study cited by the USDOL on CLEAR, only one tool—Layoff-to-Employment Action Planner (LEAP)—is described. 

LEAP is published by Career Action Resources, LLC. Learn more about LEAP.