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The local library is offering a four hour class on job hunting skills. FREE.
(Resume development, tips on finding job openings, interview skills, and an inside view of the hiring process.)
They say in the advertisement that the class is designed for professionals and assumes a general knowledge of job hunting skills. They are limiting enrollment to twenty people. The person who is doing this class teaches job hunting classes professionally but agreed to do this seminar for free as a community service.
I am trying to get some of my jobless friends to sign up with me but so far no luck. They say why take a class when all the information is available online and in books. Is their argument against the class logical?
(I say it will be beneficial because we can compare notes and I can ask individual questions, etc.)
The local library is offering a four hour class on job hunting skills. FREE.
(Resume development, tips on finding job openings, interview skills, and an inside view of the hiring process.)
They say in the advertisement that the class is designed for professionals and assumes a general knowledge of job hunting skills. They are limiting enrollment to twenty people. The person who is doing this class teaches job hunting classes professionally but agreed to do this seminar for free as a community service.
I am trying to get some of my jobless friends to sign up with me but so far no luck. They say why take a class when all the information is available online and in books. Is their argument against the class logical?
(I say it will be beneficial because we can compare notes and I can ask individual questions, etc.)
If you are not willing to go by yourself then you are not wanting a job.
I would probably go... But after 30 mins and it still feels like informational, I am walking out. Now I have took a free two hour course on job search at an local community college, I learned a few things. It also could be useful for networking.
Interesting replies so far. So you assume a class put on by the library would be a waste of time, even though they are devoting four hours to it? I would suspect that if the person was a professional and it was done at the library he/she would be checked out ahead of time.
Also, who knows everything that is important about the job hunting game today and has got it all figured out? Very few I suspect, because a friend of mine sees lots and lots of resumes and interviews tons of people and she says most people are just terrible, based on poorly written resumes and interview skills.
No, I don't feel it is a waste of my time. Many of these informational classes are reiterating everything I have heard or researched in my own. It would need to be engaging and have some new information.
Interesting replies so far. So you assume a class put on by the library would be a waste of time, even though they are devoting four hours to it? I would suspect that if the person was a professional and it was done at the library he/she would be checked out ahead of time.
Also, who knows everything that is important about the job hunting game today and has got it all figured out? Very few I suspect, because a friend of mine sees lots and lots of resumes and interviews tons of people and she says most people are just terrible, based on poorly written resumes and interview skills.
That isn't new information. I realize if I am not getting interviews, it's time to spruce up my resume. That is a. Enter workshop IMO than how to find a job.
Interesting replies so far. So you assume a class put on by the library would be a waste of time, even though they are devoting four hours to it? I would suspect that if the person was a professional and it was done at the library he/she would be checked out ahead of time.
Also, who knows everything that is important about the job hunting game today and has got it all figured out? Very few I suspect, because a friend of mine sees lots and lots of resumes and interviews tons of people and she says most people are just terrible, based on poorly written resumes and interview skills.
Why are you really hear ?
Do you need someone to take you their, or talk you into it ?
I would go. If you feel like you're not getting anything out of it you can always leave.
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