Often CRC’s clients will have encountered a recent, and first, job loss and are trying to cope with this major, life disrupting experience. Sixty-six percent (66%) of all clients are unemployed when they begin using CRC services with many of those listed as employed being proactive knowing that shortly they will also be on the unemployment rolls.

CRC serves clients from a wide range of disciplines, professions, experiences, age groups, and compensation levels (entry to executive). They may be recent widows or empty nesters returning to the workplace for the first time in years. They may be recent college graduates or those who have been under employed. The majority, however, are unemployed workers affected by downsizing, mergers, company closings or relocations. Clients’ specialties vary dramatically with sales, customer service, technology, finance, administrative services, marketing, and general management topping the list.

Since its inception 19 years ago, CRC has served more than 10,500 job seekers. During the period of April 2008 through March 2009, 857 clients from 86 different communities accessed the services CRC provides. Sixty-three percent (63%) of CRC’s clients reside in Lake County, thirty-three percent (33%) in Cook County, and four percent (4%) from surrounding counties including southern Wisconsin. According to our latest demographic analysis of clientele, seventy-five percent (75%) of clients are over the age of 46, with fifty-six percent (56%) above the age of 50 years. Thirty-three percent (33%) are 56 years of age or older and twelve percent (12%) are over the age of 60 years. Forty percent (40%) are women; sixty percent (60%) are men.