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Well, if I were unemployed, I'd probably look into it.
Thinking of some chronically unemployed folks I know, they DEFINITELY could use some help on getting their act together. Whether or not they'll listen or even comprehend what other people tell them they should be doing is another story, though - there's a reason (**cough** poor social skills **cough**) they don't interview well, and are for the most part oblivious to their own shortcomings.
I would go. Your friends may think everything is online, but there are always tips and tricks to be learned. If nothing else, you're meeting people in the same situation and you might be able to network together.
Regarding some classes I've attended over the years my biggest 'beef' has been they often could have covered the material in half the time or less--however if I needed assistance with something and a class was offered, I'd figure it couldn't hurt and might help. Good luck.
Forget your friends.....Why sabotage yourself by waiting around and trying to convince them, meanwhile people are signing up.....You should hurry before you lose out.
Note the ones that think they know it all. If they are out of a job and not getting one, it proves right there they don't. It is amazing, how so many think if they are not learning a lit during the first half an hour, the course is useless and they will leave. If they don't have a job and seriously looking, then it proves they need help.
In a class like that, the best is taught near the end. The first part is to get people up to speed, to understand what comes later in the class. You start with basics, as some people need the whole course. Others only need part, and often do not know they need it till it is taught. I know, after I retired I put on similar programs with our church. About all of my students were able to find jobs in short order. It was usually one or two things, that they needed to learn to be successful, and they never knew what part of that class would be when that part was to be taught.
Take if from someone that hired hundreds of people over my career, the reason most people have a problem finding jobs, is they do poorly in their resume writing, and in the interviews. They may think they did great, and a interviewer may tell them they did great (told them to get them out of the door without being angry at the interviewer ) when in the first 5 minutes they had turned off the HR/HM interviewer to the point they had already lost the job.
I would use it as a networking opportunity not necessarily for job hunting skills especially if it's free.
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