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With Florida’s unemployment rate hovering at just under 5 percent, officials are looking for new ways to get people back to collecting paychecks. As Matt Galka tells us, if you need a job…there’s now an app for that.

Will Youmas needs a job.

“My current situation is that I’m on disability and I’m going to have to find a job to help take care of my kid,” he said.

Right now he applies on his computer…sending out resume after resume.

“If there’s an easier way to find one or look for one is do it,” said Youmas.

And sometimes it feels hopeless. But the state’s Department of Economic Opportunity says a new smartphone app may be able to help.

It’s called Employ Florida Mobile.  With just a few clicks and swipes…a job seeker can see all the jobs around their current area…or another area in the state…or fine tune their job hunt to the field they’re looking for.

“What the app does in the background is we are pulling from Monster, all the different data banks that are out there, so we are making sure we are capturing as many jobs as we possible can to connect job seekers in the state with the jobs,” said Department of Economic Opportunity Executive Director Cissy Proctor.
DEO says there’s nearly 300 thousand jobs listed in the app.  If you like what you see…you’re taken to a website to apply. Youmas is on board.

“This is pretty cool man, and then right here it says how to apply,” he says as he fiddles with his phone.

The state hopes the app isn’t just useful for people already living here…but maybe some out of staters looking to relocate and find a new job.

Smartphone users can search for Employ Florida Mobile in their iPhone or Android app stores