Illinois Manufacturing Foundation

12/03/2018

Illinois Manufacturing Foundation is increasing our social media outreach in 2019. we cant wait to meet our twitter community. Lets have a great year!!!!

11/28/2018

Great things coming soon !

08/28/2018

Slots open to train for high-wage, high-demand jobs at Illinois Manufacturing Foundation. Train for the Information Technology field or for Manufacturing

02/05/2018

Real Skills for Real Careers. Free Orientation Every Tuesday Morning, 9:30 am, 2101 S. Kedzie in Chicago.

10/05/2017

Tired of low-wage, low-skill DEAD END JOBS?
To get the skills you need for high-wage, high-demand jobs, enroll in one of IMF's training and placement programs now.
Computer Support Specialists are needed throughout the Chicagoland area; get trained at IMF
Precision Machinists are needed throughout the metro Chicago area: get trained at IMF

07/26/2017

Illinois Manufacturing Foundation

Illinois Manufacturing Foundation

Information on IMF and their upcoming orientation. This program was recorded on June 6, 2017 at Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).

07/12/2017

Illinois Manufacturing Foundation

Everyone knows someone who is out of work, or who is looking to get started in a real career. Check out an IMF video:
Illinois Manufacturing Foundation (IMF) is always looking for good students. For us this means people who find it hard to get work, especially work with family-supporting wages. This happens when a person did not get the skills s/he needed for a real job when in school, or their skills are no longer in demand, or they have a criminal record, or they have completed high school and don’t want to go to college but lack skills or a work history. Each of you probably knows someone who really wants to work and would make reliable, hard-working employees but they just don’t have the skills for a high-wage, high demand job Most people know someone who fits this description.

Please reflect for a few minutes on your friends and relatives and then forward the link to an IMF YouTube video to such a person. The video shows IMF’s director, Ric Gudell, with Domingo Hernandez, a graduate of IMF’s machinist training program. You know from your own experience that our training provides real skill for real jobs and that our students graduate without taking on any educational debt. You can send this video to as many as you think might benefit from it, but please commit to sending it to at least one. Check out the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE-UHzj76Eo

Information on IMF and their upcoming orientation. This program was recorded on June 6, 2017 at Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).

07/12/2017

Need Real Skills for Real Jobs with Family-Supporting Wages?
Come the IMF Orientation on Tuesday Morning, 9:30 am to learn how you can get the skills you need for real jobs with family-supporting wages.
2101 S. Kedzie, Chicago, IL 60623 (corner of Kedzie and 21st Street - right near the Kedzie Station on the CTA Pink Line)
Call 773-277-2343 to schedule your place for your new career!

07/05/2017

EMPLOYER STORIES: PRECISION MACHINING

Where Can You Find the Skills You Need?

Steve’s Story

• Can’t recruit the skilled workers needed to maintain and grow his company.

To meet ongoing production needs as well as provide for continued growth, Steve, the president of a thriving machining company, needed a source of skilled machinists. The company manufactures close-tolerance, machined surgical instrumentation and implants used primarily in orthopedic and spinal surgical procedures.

Early on Steve learned that people who could work at the tolerance levels required for these products are extraordinarily difficult to find. The employers with workers this skilled pay them well and hang on to them, in bad times as well as good, just like Steve’s company does. If a few people with these skills turn up on the market from time to time, they tend to come with other baggage, which makes them difficult to hire.

At first Steve grew his firm by asking the skilled machinists he already employed to put in extra hours. There was, of course, an obvious limit to this approach to meeting his skilled labor needs. In anticipation of reaching that limit, he put in place a training program to develop skilled workers.

Says Steve, “We quickly learned that we got the best results when we trained people internally who had solid basic skills and were highly motivated to better themselves. IMF has proved our most productive source of trainees. This includes ex-offenders. We know exactly what we are getting in terms of basic skills and capabilities, and can set up our training to pick up where IMF left off. The ex-offenders we got from this source have been grateful for the second chance we are giving them. They also have something to prove to themselves and the world at large. Those are great motivators.” ###

10/18/2016

Illinois Manufacturing Foundation is Participating in #givingtuesday. Our goal is to raise $35,000 to purchase a 3 axis vertical milling machine. This will upgrade and improve our program.

09/21/2016

Jobs in High Demand with a Bright Outlook!
Machinists
Computer Support Specialists

You can get the skills you need for these high demand jobs
at Illinois Manufacturing Foundation (IMF)
2101 S. Kedzie Avenue, Chicago, IL 60623
Call 773-277-2343 now to participate in IMF Tuesday Morning (9:30 am) Orientation to the Skills Shortage and to Training
for These Skills

07/13/2016

Need Real Skills for Real Jobs with Family-Supporting Wages?
Come the IMF Orientation on Tuesday Morning, 9:30 am to learn how you can get the skills you need for real jobs with family-supporting wages.
2101 S. Kedzie, Chicago, IL 60623 (corner of Kedzie and 21st Street - right near the Kedzie Station on the CTA Pink Line)
Call 773-277-2343 to schedule your place for your new career!

05/02/2016

Need a #job? Looking to start a #career? Call us today and speak with an Admissions Counselor!

05/02/2016

IMF will be temporarily closed until further notice. For questions please call or email us at [email protected]. Sorry for the inconvenience.

04/27/2016

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04/26/2016

Orientation today at 9:30am, don't be late!

03/28/2016

REMINDER: There will be a career training orientation session tomorrow at 9:30am at 2101 S. Kedzie #Chicago. Hope to see you there.

03/21/2016

Please join us tomorrow 9:30am for our free career training orientation, held at the IMF Building located at 2101 S. Kedzie Chicago!

03/18/2016

Apologies to those having trouble accessing our website. We will be making adjustments over the next few weeks. If you have any questions please call us at (773) 277-2343.

02/18/2016

Follow us on Twitter @ImfJobTraining to stay updated on what's going on at IMF!

02/15/2016

IMF will be closed today and will reopen tomorrow at 9:30 am for orientation #HappyPresidentsDay.

02/12/2016

Hey IMF Alumni! Did you know? Alumni are welcome to our job assistance & placement services for FREE within three years of graduation!