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After my layoff, I am trying hard to get another career type job but so far without success. I look at all the job hunting books at the library and many of the websites online about job hunting skills. Good information but still can't get hired.
Recently I noticed a number of actual classes on job hunting skills put on at places like the Public Library, at my church and with a State Agency. These are all free. If you were unemployed would you attend an actual class on job hunting? Would having an actual teacher in front of the classroom and hearing from other job hunters make any difference or would it just be repeat information I have already read online or in books?
After my layoff, I am trying hard to get another career type job but so far without success. I look at all the job hunting books at the library and many of the websites online about job hunting skills. Good information but still can't get hired.
Recently I noticed a number of actual classes on job hunting skills put on at places like the Public Library, at my church and with a State Agency. These are all free. If you were unemployed would you attend an actual class on job hunting? Would having an actual teacher in front of the classroom and hearing from other job hunters make any difference or would it just be repeat information I have already read online or in books?
What happened to the class you paid to attend last year for "retired executives"? You wrote at length about the experience, your disappointment in the reaction and interaction of the other participants and much more. After that you allegedly became a part-time "professor" at a local college but ran into problems there when you challenged your supervisor's directives so presumably that contract wasn't renewed. At this point a few free classes certainly couldn't hurt although what you might learn is debatable when you have the attitude that you know better than anyone else.
After my layoff, I am trying hard to get another career type job but so far without success. I look at all the job hunting books at the library and many of the websites online about job hunting skills. Good information but still can't get hired.
Recently I noticed a number of actual classes on job hunting skills put on at places like the Public Library, at my church and with a State Agency. These are all free. If you were unemployed would you attend an actual class on job hunting? Would having an actual teacher in front of the classroom and hearing from other job hunters make any difference or would it just be repeat information I have already read online or in books?
developing some semblance of people skills would be one place to start
After my layoff, I am trying hard to get another career type job but so far without success. I look at all the job hunting books at the library and many of the websites online about job hunting skills. Good information but still can't get hired.
Recently I noticed a number of actual classes on job hunting skills put on at places like the Public Library, at my church and with a State Agency. These are all free. If you were unemployed would you attend an actual class on job hunting? Would having an actual teacher in front of the classroom and hearing from other job hunters make any difference or would it just be repeat information I have already read online or in books?
There is another poster on C-D who speaks VERY highly of church-sponsored job skills classes! The ones that have a structured program, give you weekly objectives, and give you hands-on practice in interview skills. NOT the "support groups", where you hang around with other unemployed people commiserating and trading stale leads.
I haven't had the occasion to take it myself: however, there is a mega-church here in VA where I live that has a structured jobs search skills program that they run one night every week. This program is on the same scale as the church (which runs multiple shifts of Sunday services!). The pastor is a real intellectual, whose sermons go into Biblical historical contexts. I come out of there and hit my history books. But I digress. The job search skills attract recruiters and executives from area big companies. There are referrals for drastically cost-reduced certification programs (the area is IT-intensive, and in IT, the more you can prove you know via current certifications, the better off you are). The attendees work their patooties off, get lots of practice interviews with the church members there (these are recorded for reference so that the attendees can track their progress), and come out with polished resumes.
The program is wildly successful in placing its attendees. The grateful attendees have swelled the ranks of productive church members (by productive, I mean giving back in service to the church community - carpentry for elderly ladies, drives to grocery shopping, that kind of thing). A really virtuous cycle.
So, although I have not gone through a program such as this myself, I and at least one other poster can vouch for their success rates.
What a uplifting positive reply. I am participating in Outplacement now but a group at a large church would be helpful too.
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Originally Posted by jane_sm1th73
There is another poster on C-D who speaks VERY highly of church-sponsored job skills classes! The ones that have a structured program, give you weekly objectives, and give you hands-on practice in interview skills. NOT the "support groups", where you hang around with other unemployed people commiserating and trading stale leads.
I haven't had the occasion to take it myself: however, there is a mega-church here in VA where I live that has a structured jobs search skills program that they run one night every week. This program is on the same scale as the church (which runs multiple shifts of Sunday services!). The pastor is a real intellectual, whose sermons go into Biblical historical contexts. I come out of there and hit my history books. But I digress. The job search skills attract recruiters and executives from area big companies. There are referrals for drastically cost-reduced certification programs (the area is IT-intensive, and in IT, the more you can prove you know via current certifications, the better off you are). The attendees work their patooties off, get lots of practice interviews with the church members there (these are recorded for reference so that the attendees can track their progress), and come out with polished resumes.
The program is wildly successful in placing its attendees. The grateful attendees have swelled the ranks of productive church members (by productive, I mean giving back in service to the church community - carpentry for elderly ladies, drives to grocery shopping, that kind of thing). A really virtuous cycle.
So, although I have not gone through a program such as this myself, I and at least one other poster can vouch for their success rates.
Best wishes!
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