Tap into the Conscientious, Productive Workforce in Spencer County Indiana

Recruiting Workers
A skilled and conscientious workforce are essential to you company's expansion or relocation. Spencer County and the State of Indiana can provide the employment services to put that workforce in place for you. Avenues for recruiting your workforce include:

Indiana Department of Workforce Development
Provides labor force recruitment, including the application process, testing assessing and screening qualified applicants through its WorkOne Centers.

Grow Southwest Indiana Workforce Board
Encourages the continual enhancement of the available workforce while assisting employers in identifying trained workers who are qualified for specific tasks

WorkKeys
Administered through the Indiana Department of Workforce Development as a part of the Energize Indiana plan, the WorkKeys program provides job profiling and worker assessments to help meet employment needs.

Training Assistance in Spencer County

Project Excellence
One of Indiana’s newest workforce development programs, Project Excellence, is already gaining widespread attention. The two-year pilot project was developed to address workplace basic skills deficits in Spencer County’s manufacturing industry.

Project Excellence is divided into two phases. The first created engineering and advanced technology academies at Spencer County’s two high schools, while enhancing services at its two adult learning centers. The second phase involves transforming an adult learning center into a lifetime and work readiness facility. An integral characteristic of the project is one that all workforce literacy programs strive for: strong collaboration among business and education sectors.
Spencer Industries Project
This is a workplace education project in partnership with the North Spencer Alternative Education Center and Adult Education Works in Indiana Workforce Education Project. Again, Spencer County is setting the standard for training.
Indiana Economic Development Corporation
Offers grants to help subsidize customized training programs addressing specific skill sets.
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
Both existing training programs and customized training programs are offered at the Ivy Tech, which is part of the statewide vocational education system

Spencer County Area Labor Information At the end of March 2012, the Spencer County area had a labor force of 126,527 with 9,115 unemployed workers. The most recent area unemployment rate is 7.2%.
County	Labor Force	Unemployed	Unemployment Rate
Dubois	21,666	1,333	6.2%
Perry	9,771	794	8.1%
Warrick	31,027	2,215	7.1%
Spencer	10,714	823	8.1%
Daviess (KY)	49,155	3,644	7.4%
Hancock (KY)	4,194	306	7.3%
Area Totals	126,527	9,115	7.2%
State of Indiana		274,699	8.5%
US		12,904,000	8.4%
Source: Indiana Department of Workforce Development, March 2012 and Kentucky Office of Employment & Training , March 2012

Commuting Patterns in and out of Spencer County
Over 1,400 commuters come to Spencer County to fill positions. The majority of these commuters are from the neighboring Indiana counties of Daviess, Dubois, Perry, Warrick and Vanderburgh and Daviess and Ohio Counties in Kentucky. These counties offer an available workforce to complement that which already exists in Spencer County.

In addition, everyone appreciates the ability to work close to home, especially with fuel prices near $4.00 per gallon. The workforce that leaves Spencer County each day (nearly 5,000 workers) offers new businesses an even larger employee pool from which to draw as county residents are attracted back to jobs within the county.

Employment and Wage Data for Spencer County (fiscal year 2009) -( View as PDF)

Great Jobs Are Available in the Spencer County Indiana Area
The location of major manufacturing facilities in the area and a strong economy, have created many jobs. Job opportunities in the Evansville area can be reviewed by visiting the Indiana Department of Workforce Development Job Bank.