Its Field Governor John Engler announced today that Michigan's Talent Bank the state's new employment computer service system now has 250,000 resumes listed. It is the largest Internet based public resume system in the nation. It demonstrates that Michigan residents are enthusiastic about using this new system to find jobs. The Talent Bank lets job seekers enter their resumes into a database via the Internet.
Employers can access that database to search for potential job candidates.
The Job Bank is a database of job openings posted by employers that job seekers can access. We're adding approximately 1,000 resumes each day to the Talent Bank. A recent survey sent to clients of the Talent Bank and Job Bank indicated that approximately 40 percent of job seekers who registered with the Talent Bank found employment. Under the old system, less than 9 percent of all job seekers found employment. Under the previous system, less than 5 percent of UI claimants found work.