The Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) Program, funded by the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL), is an integrated unemployment assessment and reemployment program designed to help dislocated workers currently receiving unemployment compensation effectively return to work. In cooperation with NJDOL, the Heldrich Center is conducting a randomized controlled trial of a text message intervention providing RESEA participants with motivational messages. The evaluation will assess the effect of text notifications with motivational messages on job seekers’ participation rates in RESEA, their duration of unemployment, and on wages after reemployment. The research team is currently in the field, receiving weekly data files from NJDOL, randomizing participants, and sending text messages to those in the treatment group.