Unemployment sent my friend this resume template for a mandatory seminar they want her to attend to get benefits. Now, unless I am missing something, this is NOT how a professional resume should look. It looks more like what you'd give to a 6th grader to have them do an essay outline, break down skills, ideal job title, and then at the bottom, previous job experience. But they want her to fill it out for some seminar they dictate she attend in order to qualify after being laid off.
She's very irritated because they also suggested she look into resources such as Rosetta Stone: English Language, as if you don't have to already know English to read the forms (she was born and raised in USA), they asked why she's been unable to get a new job, and asked if she's considered looking on job sites, as if that isn't the standard method.
In the second picture she sent me, it asks why she thinks she has been unable to be re-employed. Would it be confrontational for her to put that she just lost the job a few days ago and no one hires on the spot? For someone with a few years of corporate experience, that seems like the best way to answer such a stupid question. But then again, she shrank back when I suggested it, so now I think it may be too heavy handed. Her company has gone through layoffs and she was cut last Monday. No one gets hired at her level in just one week when blindsided by a layoff she thought she would survive, right?
This is the breakdown she sent me of what they'll make her go through, including learning English and learning microsoft office. All stuff she and most of us already know.
Testing & Training Meet with a Career Counselor Self-Paced Training: Rosetta Stone: English Webinar: The Path to Training Webinar: ESOL Prep/HSE/GED Job Search Meet with a Recruiter Webinar: Resume Essentials Webinar: Resume Writing 2: Communicating Your Value Webinar: Resume Writing 3: Writing a Resume Designed for an ATS & the Human Eye Webinar: Resume Strategies for Challenging Situations Webinar: Compelling Cover & Thank you Letters Webinar: Interviewing Essentials Webinar: Interview Mastery 2 Webinar: Behavioral Interview Questions Webinar: Marketing Your Maturity Webinar: Networking Strategies Webinar: Moving on from Job Loss Webinar: LinkedIn Essentials Webinar: LinkedIn 2: Your Most Powerful Job Search Networking Tool Webinar: Salary Negotiation Webinar: Attending Virtual Job Fairs Technology Webinar: Computer Essentials Webinar: MS Word Essentials Webinar: MS Excel Essentials Webinar: MS PowerPoint Essentials Webinar: Tips in 30 Minutes: SkillBase Webinar: Tips in 30 Minutes: Zoom