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We’re Live! Second Quarter System Launch Roundup

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:54:00 GMT

We're already making significant strides with system deployments this year. So far, in the second quarter of 2025, our teams have successfully launched eight new client systems, portals, and modules across various states, territories, cities, and educational institutions.

These systems include:

👩‍💻 Texas’s Integration of AI Assist into WorkInTexas – April 2025
👩‍🔧 Indiana Registered Apprenticeship Module – April 2025
👩‍👧 Texas Non-Custodial Parent Module – May 2025
🚪 Virginia Workforce Connection’s VOSGreeter Module – May 2025
🏫 Virginia Workforce Connection’s Registered Apprenticeship Module – May 2025
💵 Iowa’s IOWAWORKS Unemployment Insurance Module – June 2025
⚖ Louisiana’s RETURN Portal – June 2025
💳 Indiana’s Work Opportunity Tax Credit Module – July 2025

These innovative solutions are designed to modernize dated systems, enhance user experience, improve operational efficiency, meet the evolving needs of our clients, and provide new opportunities to individuals in need.

Stay tuned for more updates on these and other systems as we continue to innovate and grow.

Louisiana HiRE Reemployment System Launches – First of its Kind in the Country

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:05:00 GMT

The Louisiana Workforce Commission, in partnership with Geographic Solutions, is pleased to announce the official launch of HiRE. The site, a first of its kind in the country, will combine unemployment benefits and workforce services in an effort to help people quickly find employment and reduce unemployment claim durations. The groundbreaking system will provide unemployment insurance claimants with open and available jobs that match their work history and location as well as monitor to ensure that claimants are fulfilling work search requirements. The site also allows workforce staff the ability to track claimant’s efforts, offer assistance, and guidance, as needed.

HiRE, which stands for Helping Individuals Reach Employment, provides all of the employment assistance services formerly available in Louisiana’s Virtual OneStop. Additionally, users can receive unemployment insurance services such as filing for unemployment insurance claims and filing for weekly benefits. The site’s unique approach to reemployment focuses on giving the unemployed all of the tools necessary to find a job. Upon applying for unemployment benefits, the user is presented with a list of current job openings and training opportunities based on their previous work history and location within the State of Louisiana. Users will also be able to search for jobs and careers using a five-star rating system that ranks jobs based on pay, as well as current and long-term demand.

HiRE, powered by Geographic Solution’s Reemployment Exchange (REX), integrates the state’s legacy UI system with the Louisiana Workforce Commission’s Virtual OneStop and labor market information site, under a single login and password.

“HiRE makes it easier to go from unemployed to re-employed,” said LWC Executive Director Curt Eysink. “We’re bringing job seekers, employers and training providers closer together than ever.”

"Today is a giant step forward in providing seamless service for our customers," said Dayne Freeman, director of the LWC's Office of Unemployment Insurance Administration. "HiRE means individuals will find work faster and spend less time collecting unemployment benefits, and businesses will enjoy lower operating costs."

The recent launch is the first of three phases. The next step, scheduled for completion in January 2014, will add unemployment appeals and benefits processing features to the HiRE system. The third phase, scheduled for early 2015, will enable employers to post job openings, recruit talent, schedule job fairs, pay unemployment taxes, file appeals, and submit required forms and compliance reports.

Learn more about HiRE, including an online tutorial, at www.laworks.net. To see how REX can enhance your workforce system, contact Deane Toler, Marketing Manager at 888-710-4867 or DToler@geosolinc.com.

Geographic Solutions, Inc. is a rapidly-growing software development company based in Palm Harbor, FL. Geographic Solutions is the nation’s leading provider of software solutions for workforce development, employment, and training. The Company has developed state-of-the-art systems for employment and workforce development agencies for more than 30 states. Our software is now available to over 75% of the job seekers and employers in the country.

Louisiana Modernizes the State Unemployment System to Bolster Reemployment

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:52:00 GMT

Geographic Solutions is helping the State of Louisiana modernize its unemployment benefits system by connecting it to the state’s Virtual OneStop system. Louisiana’s new platform – Helping Individuals Reach Employment (HIRE)– will serve as a bridge to reemployment as well as ensure accurate unemployment insurance benefits by helping to detect fraud and minimize overpayments. The bridged site is set to go live by the end of December 2012.

HIRE, powered by Geographic Solutions’ Reemployment Exchange (REX), integrates the state’s legacy UI system with the Louisiana Workforce Commission’s Virtual OneStop site and Louisiana’s labor market information. Claimants will visit one website with one log-in and have access to both UI benefits, labor exchange and labor market information. The system, a first of its kind, will monitor and ensure that claimants are fulfilling work search requirements while simultaneously providing job opportunities and labor market information that aid the claimant in their search for reemployment. Immediately upon signing on for unemployment benefits, the claimant will be provided with a list of suitable jobs within their area. The system can also send internal messages, emails, and text messages of job openings and job search requirements. HIRE provides the claimant all of the tools necessary to land a suitable, good-paying job.

Not only does HIRE assist the claimant, it also offers valuable information to employers who are looking to find qualified employees who meet their needs. HIRE does all of this while providing staff the ability to track the claimant's efforts and offer assistance and guidance when necessary. HIRE evaluates claims in real-time – providing claimants, employers and staff up-to-the-minute information. The system’s coordination of seamless customer service for employers, claimants, and staff is of paramount importance.

Phase Two of the project is set to launch in 2013, and involves the transition to the Geographic Solutions Unemployment System (GUS). The GUS system is a more comprehensive approach to reemployment in that it moves away from linking to a legacy UI system and moves towards one comprehensive site which handles unemployment claims and registration of claimants, workforce exchange/job placements, and UI benefits.

For more information on the modernization of the Louisiana unemployment and workforce systems, visit http://www.geographicsolutions.com/solutions-unemployment-program.asp or contact Deane Toler, Marketing Manager, Geographic Solutions (888-710-4867) or Mark Hodges, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Louisiana Workforce Commission (225-342-6001).

Louisiana's new platform – Helping Individuals Reach Employment (HIRE) – will serve as a bridge to reemployment as well as ensure accurate unemployment insurance benefits by helping to detect fraud and minimize overpayments. The bridged site is set to go live in early January 2013. Recently, the HIRE site made the local news for Louisiana. Check out the news broadcast here: http://www.wbrz.com/videos/system-is-an-on-line-classifieds-linking-employees-to-employers/

Louisiana Virtual OneStop® Shows Off Their New Look!

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:38:00 GMT

Louisiana jobseekers and employers now have an even more enhanced tool at their disposal to assist them in finding suitable jobs, locating training opportunities and identifying skilled candidates. The Louisiana Virtual OneStop®, commonly referred to as LAVOS, upgraded to Version 11.1 of Virtual OneStop®, in December 2011, bringing numerous enhancements to individuals seeking jobs and employers seeking employees. All of the services continue to be provided at no charge to job seekers and employers. The web site for the Louisiana Virtual OneStop is www.laworks.net.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission is proud to report that so far this year, the LAVOS portal has had 286,830 registered individual users and nearly 10,000 employer users. Yearly, the LWC helps more than 170,000 people get jobs or transition to better jobs.

Users will notice a different look and feel when they visit the site. Louisiana Workforce Commission Executive Director Curt Eysink notes, “The upgrades focused on greater access to workforce information, coupled with cleaner and more streamlined experience to assist job seekers and employers in finding what they need quickly.” The site will feature a new layout structure, highlighted by a revolving image carousel along with a prominent navigation bar, a collapsible menu in the side navigation and easy-to-understand content. Additional navigation tabs include, special services and resources. The resource center is equipped with a help desk, an online learning center that houses video tutorials, and ALISON, a leading free online learning site.

Version 11.1 of Geographic Solutions’ Virtual OneStop® will provide users with a wide array of employment-related services. Job seekers search for available jobs using a search engine that aggregates jobs from company and government websites, newspaper postings and corporate job boards. Job searches can be conducted for a radius of a zip code, by city or county, by metropolitan or workforce area, or on a statewide basis. Job seekers will be able to search for training opportunities within the system.

Employers can have access to recent training graduates and can search for talent and rank the candidates using the automated system. The site was actually designed around valuable feedback from area employers. The site will also offer employer account management, which will give employers the ability to create multiple subaccounts. Job vacancies will be posted through a step-by-step process. This will allow employers to complete job postings at their convenience and not at one session, because inputs can now be saved periodically throughout the process.

LAVOS provides Labor Market Information and skill requirements for any job listed. Job seekers can develop resumes and cover letters and then submit them directly to the employer online. Job seekers can conduct tailored job searches for Green Jobs, Veteran-preferred jobs, etc. Occupations that are identified as O*NET Green Occupations, are indicated with an icon in Virtual OneStop and Virtual LMI, similarly how high-demand and Bright Outlook occupations are. The templates available for resumes have also been enhanced to include a Federal format option, which can be used when applying for government jobs.

The site provides one stop staff with the most cutting-edge job matching and referral system. All services provided to employers or job seekers, whether self-service or staff-assisted, will be accounted for and used to improve agency performance and regional economic growth initiatives. Case Managers can also enter and track individuals’ financial aid, budgeting, employment plans, training attendance and WIA case management. Version 11.1 also brings a plethora of newly added staff alert notification/subscriptions.

In keeping in line with the nation’s reemployment initiatives, Version 11.1 of Virtual OneStop® can also be configured to integrate with two different UI benefits systems, the Reemployment Exchange (REX) and the Geographic Solutions Unemployment System (GUS) in an effort to reduce the amount of time that an individual is out of work and collecting unemployment benefits.

Geographic Solutions is a rapidly-growing software development company based in Palm Harbor, Florida. Geographic Solutions is the nation’s leading provider of software solutions for workforce development, employment and training. The Company has developed state-of-the-art systems for employment and workforce development agencies for more than 30 states. Our software is now available to over 75% of the job seekers and employers in the country. For more information, visit www.geographicsolutions.com or call 727-786-7955.