EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS TO CONDUCT AN EFFECTIVE JOB SEARCH

CRC energizes and empowers clients by offering education, training and mentoring in a supportive environment focused on self-empowerment. CRC teaches self-reliance as the cornerstone of success. Its unique program energizes and empowers unemployed and underemployed adults by providing education, training, and mentoring. Through meetings with CRC advisors, and attendance at educational programs, clients learn more about themselves, explore career options, and develop a focused approach and plan of action. By understanding and becoming able to articulate their specialized set of skills, strengths, and talents, clients can more successfully market themselves, maximizing their chance of finding satisfying employment.

Learning new strategies on appropriate and effective self-promotion skills can benefit a client well beyond his initial goal of seeking new employment. Indeed, the client’s employment represents the achievement of the mutual goals of CRC and his community, namely that his job search be successful and that he become increasingly independent, both financially and personally.

Career Resource Center began as a religious outreach mission in the late 1980s with an innovative approach for serving the needs of a few local individuals impacted by the “white collar” recession. CRC “officially” opened its doors in a rental facility in 1990. Initially a volunteer director operated the Center three days a week.

To keep up with Career Resource Center’s resounding success and move forward with its needs-driven growth, CRC employed an Executive Director, became incorporated (1994), received its tax-exempt nonprofit status (1995), expanded to full-time operations (1996), relocated to larger quarters in a retreat-like setting (2002), and renovated the facility and upgraded technology (2008-2009).

Using a creative approach, CRC has been able to respond to the ever-changing economy and needs of the Center’s clientele by making modifications to services that embrace best practices and new technology without diminishing the “personal touch” for which CRC is so well known.

During Career Resource Center’s 19 years of service it has achieved significant growth, and emerged as a benchmark for Chicagoland nonprofit career transition centers.

The Center moved from a church affiliated, limited-hours outreach mission to an incorporated, nonprofit organization offering comprehensive re-employment services. CRC has grown from assisting a few local clients per week to serving the needs of approximately 1,000 clients each year.

Since inception, CRC has served more than 10,500 individuals, possessing great diversity in professions, experience, gender, age and residency. Today our volunteer corps has grown to over 115 individuals who all offer their expertise pro-bono.

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