DLR Can Help with Your Employee Search

Employers, we hear you! One of your concerns is finding qualified workers. DLR can help by getting employees into the workforce. We can help you post jobs, find qualified employees, and fill your positions.

SDWORKS, our online jobs database, can connect you with potential candidates and help you research wages and other labor market information. With thousands of active job seekers, SDWORKS intuitively matches jobs and candidates. While SDWORKS supports self-service, DLR employment specialists are ready statewide to assist you.

Our network of job service offices provides employer recruitment and hiring services, including job order writing, job fairs, and office space to conduct interviews, information sessions or other hiring events.

DLR also offers a wide range of workforce training programs. DLR can identify and develop trainings based on the business need. These programs may reduce training costs, improve retention rates and an increase the skills of your workforce.

Beyond recruitment, hiring and training services, DLR can also provide information on the labor market in your area and employment laws in South Dakota.

Discover more about our Workforce Services for Businesses.

Trade Adjustment Assistance Program Helps Eligible Employers and Workers Affected by Layoffs and Closures

Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) is a federal program that assists U.S. workers who have lost their jobs or whose hours of work and wages are reduced resulting from a direct or indirect relation to foreign trade.

The TAA program offers many benefits and reemployment services to help affected workers prepare to return to the workforce. The goal of TAA is to get trade-affected workers back into the workforce as soon as possible. Workers may be eligible for training, job search and relocation allowances, income support and other reemployment services through the program to help them become re-employed more quickly.

If a business is experiencing a layoff or closure, it is important they connect with a DLR Job Service office. An employment specialist will gather information to submit a TAA petition to the U.S. Department of Labor who will further research the reason for the layoff or closure to determine eligibility for the TAA program. If a petition is approved, DLR will connect with the business to schedule events to share services and resources with impacted employees. A certified petition helps a business retain their workforce through release or closure by denying benefits to employees who quit or are terminated.

Businesses or workers that have questions or suspect a recent or upcoming closures/layoffs could be foreign trade-related, can contact a TAA Employment Specialist at their job service office.