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Originally Posted by cm5878
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I keep it confidential, but there were over 100 people in my particular class in different locations around the city. We averaged a 40% salary increase after attending twice weekly classes. Most of us never went to college.
I'll share my story. It may not be enough to motivate you to start doing 100 mock interviews or attending free career development classes. It's ultimately up to you.
Unemployed people, do you ever feel like you're the object of some crude practical joke?
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Originally Posted by move4ward
This section is related to a late 2008 layoff. We had 60 days to empty our drawers. I was tired of making $12/hr and problems with making bills.
I started attending FREE weekly life skills classes at church. We would meet twice a week. They talked about insurance, budgeting, retirement, and career development. It was geared to people in poverty. I qualified. For career development, we had resume critiques, practice interviews, watched a short clip every now and then. After a few resume revisions and several practice interviews, I was ready. I removed tons of junk from the resume. My original resume read like a job description. The final resume was focused on accomplishments. I used to send the same resume to every job and do resume blasts of 100 a week. I switched up and focused on a targeted search. I would apply for a handful of positions every week. I started customizing each resume based on the job description.
The biggest takeaway is to get objective feedback on your resume and interview skills from strangers. Friends and family may have no idea how to get a job themselves. They may only found a job through a connection.
There were rumors of the company being sold and the employees being laid off. I went back through my old study material from the life skills class. I started studying for the Oracle SQL Expert certification immediately. After 2 months, the sale was announced and we were given 60 days to split. I finished the certification in another month. I was already NOT to do a resume blast. I did another targeted resume submission. Within 4 weeks, I got 1-2 calls every week. I had a job lined up 2 weeks after my layoff.
I took the $75k off. After a raise, I was bumped to over $80k. I work a 40-45 hour week and the job is pretty easy.
That's how I went from $12/hr to over $80k/yr after 2 layoffs in a horrible recession.
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