Follow Your Heart to a Caring Career

Find Work Now in Health Care & Social Assistance

Begin an in-demand career path with great growth potential and no training beyond high school required to start in many positions. You can start working right away!

Talk with a CareerForce specialist about preparing for and finding employment in home-, community- and facility-based care in your part of Minnesota.

Select this link to find contact information for staff at a CareerForce location near you today or call 651-259-7500.

Why you should Follow Your Heart to a Caring Career:

Employers pay for your initial training in many cases – and they may also pay for future training to help you grow in your career and earn more money.

Many employers welcome employees who are learning English.

There are more than 30,000 job openings across Minnesota in health care and social assistance positions.

You do not need experience working in health care to start many entry-level positions – and many skills you earned in other fields transfer to health care and social assistance positions.

Talk with employers to see how they can work with you on child care, transportation, scheduling, language training and more – employers want to work with you.

Start making a difference in the lives of others today – find your fit in a Caring Career!

View information about working as a Personal Care Aide or Nursing Assistant below. Explore additional opportunities to support children and adults with disabilities, older adults or people with mental health care needs on this page.

Personal Care Aides

These caring professionals support people in their own homes and help them be a part of their local communities, and sometimes provide respite for family or friend caregivers. This type of work is available through agencies or directly for the person who needs care. You might enjoy working in an individual's home if you prefer to work one on one with a person you can get to know well.

Download an informational sheet about what Personal Care Aides do, and how to become one - available in multiple languages

Download an informational sheet about supporting a person in an individual home or in the community

To apply for jobs like this:

Talk with staff at a CareerForce near you about employment opportunities
View current job postings in Minnesota for Personal Care Aides - only 500 postings are displayed, but there are more openings - you can narrow the search based on your home location and change the search focus by using other keywords, using other similar job titles for Personal Care Aides. Some of the professionals working in this role are called Personal Care Attendants, Home Health Aides, PCAs and other titles.

Nursing Assistants

These caring professionals support people in larger settings where many people needing support live together. You might enjoy this work if you prefer working with many different people and having a supervisor or colleague on-site to ask questions. Some of the professionals supporting these facilities are Nursing Assistants, Dietary Aides, Housekeeping Aides, Activities Aides, Trained Medication Assistants (TMA), Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) and more.

Download an informational sheet about what Nursing Assistants do, and how to become one - available in English, Hmong, Somali and Spanish.

You can learn about finding free Nursing Assistant training in Minnesota in this recent article.

To apply for jobs like this:

Talk with staff at a CareerForce near you about employment opportunities
View current job postings in Minnesota for Nursing Assistants - only 500 postings are displayed, but there are more openings - you can narrow the search based on your home location and change the search focus by using other keywords, using other similar job titles for Nursing Assistants like CNAs or other titles listed above in this description
Visit CaringCareersStartHere.com to search open positions in long-term care

Resources to help promote Caring Careers

Participate in job fairs and other hiring events throughout the state - CareerForce staff and partners and employers are invited to submit a form to add their events to our calendar
Use Follow Your Heart to a Caring Career social media and other graphics - please use this hashtag #CaringCareerMN if you post related to this campaign so that CareerForceMN, DEED and others can find and share your posts!
Share the Follow Your Heart to a Caring Career 8.5x11 flyer - for you to print and post, posting locations could include local libraries, community centers, schools or other locations in your area - updated 2025
View additional Caring Career employment options - there are many employment opportunities now throughout the health care and social assistance industry!
Caring Career Pathways informational handout - for you to print and share with career explorers and job seekers - updated 2025
Updated labor market information for the Health Care & Social Assistance industry - helpful for employers, job counselors, educators, career explorers and job seekers to understand current demand and projected job growth
Caring Career Info for Teens - information to use with young people to encourage them to consider working in home-, community- or facility-based care.
Follow Your Heart to a Caring Career employer resources - campaign information for home-, community- and facility-based care provider employers; includes information on how to engage with and leverage this campaign