GovWebworks built CareerForceMN — a $6 million DOL-funded unified workforce portal — delivering personalized job opportunities, career guidance, labor market integrations, and training resources for job seekers, employers, workforce staff, and community partners across Minnesota.
The Challenge
In 2015, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development secured a $6 million Workforce Innovation Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to build a unified digital platform supporting the state’s employment and workforce programs. The department needed a comprehensive system capable of serving four distinct audiences — job seekers, employers, workforce development staff, and community partners — while responding to ongoing shifts in Minnesota’s labor market. Existing tools were fragmented and couldn’t deliver the integrated, personalized experience the state envisioned.
Our Approach
GovWebworks collaborated with DEED staff throughout a structured discovery phase to refine program objectives and define data integration requirements. The team employed Agile Scrum methodology and leveraged a proprietary Drupal-based platform that could be configured rapidly and extended as program needs evolved. API-driven integrations with labor market information systems, O*Net, and Career One Stop enabled the platform to deliver relevant, data-informed guidance to users exploring training options and career pathways. The build balanced flexibility for diverse user groups with a coherent, accessible experience across the site.
The Result
CareerForceMN launched in late 2018, giving Minnesotans a single destination for personalized job opportunities, support services, training resources, and career guidance. The platform’s labor market integrations ensure job seekers see relevant, current information aligned with real workforce demand — not just a static job board. Ongoing enhancements since launch have expanded labor market information integrations, added internal collaboration tools for workforce staff, integrated identity and access management, and incorporated the AI chatbot assistant that became the foundation for the CareerForce Assistant Chatbot engagement.
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