Poll of the Day > So unemployment wants a resume

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You would think if you only lost your job temporarily because of the shut down you wouldn't need all that extra shit

I don't have a resume because I don't need one, what are people like me supposed to do to get paid for this bs?

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Muscles posted...

, what are people like me supposed to do to get paid for this bs?

Make a resume I guess?

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probably make a resume

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Why are they forcing people to make a resume just for them? Seems like they should just have a "I temporarily lost my job due to covid 19" button and skip the extra shit for people that are actually unemployed

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You might as well make one to pass the time.

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They want to make sure youre looking for employment which is a qualification for benefits

it doesnt need to be complicated. There are plenty of formats you can follow online but it really just needs to be a typed document that says who you are, how to contact you, any experience you have and what kind of job youre looking for

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Unemployment needs proof of your 'according to ability' before giving 'according to your need'?

What is this, Communism!?

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Make one I guess but if your job has a restart date then you should not have to look for another job.

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I keep my resume up to date every 6 months or so. You never know when you're gonna need it, opportunities come and go.

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If youve got nothing to do make a resume.

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Muscles posted...

forcing people to make a resume just for them

wow thats fucked up you should tell trump

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Some people dont know how to make resumes or dont have resumes saved in there computer

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Requesting a resume during a crisis like this.. I bet a leftist set that up.

It is super easy to make a resume. What a strange thing to cry about.

why would you not have a resume

xjayguyx posted...

Requesting a resume during a crisis like this.. I bet a leftist set that up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpQUvdtbEOY

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Muscles posted...

Why are they forcing people to make a resume just for them? Seems like they should just have a "I temporarily lost my job due to covid 19" button and skip the extra shit for people that are actually unemployed

"I want free money and can't be bothered to spend 15-30 minutes putting together a simple resume"

I hear Kroger is hiring people off the street, it's not like it's impossible to find temp work right now.

Its so that they have one on file to help you get a job.

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When even unemployment tells you that you don't have the necessary experience

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Muscles posted...

You would think if you only lost your job temporarily because of the shut down you wouldn't need all that extra shit

Why would you think that? You're claiming unemployment thus unemployed and need to provide things someone who unemployed would.

I don't have a resume because I don't need one, what are people like me supposed to do to get paid for this bs?

Clearly you need one. Not hard to type one up.

xjayguyx posted...

Requesting a resume during a crisis like this.. I bet a leftist set that up.

Son. Unemployed folk need these things to you know, look for work and claim money. This is nothing new.

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Here are some basic resume formats if that may help:
https://www.myperfectresume.com/resume-samples/the-simple-resume/amp

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Yeah but we had jobs...and they were fine...good jobs even that have been fucked up because the govt and everyone else decided to turn into hysterical lunatics a few weeks ago. Suddenly telling everyone to stay home and screw up lives even though our country had no infrastructure for such a thing to be possible to begin with.

Now they are talking about unemployment holding weeks, asking how many other jobs we've applied for...wanting resumes etc etc

Fuck them...seriously. They force this on people then expect that shit still? I know my local stores arent hiring at all because everything's been filled up due to all this. And even if it wasnt...I'm suddenly expected to take such a job in place of the one I had and liked? And a job that's very likely to give me the virus on top of that and will probably pay me less than unemployment benefits while my kids dont have a school to go to and need watching?

Seriously...fuck everyone involved in this and fuck those stupid "flatten the curve graphs" that's making this shit my new reality. Its not my fault savages across the world wat bats for fun...why am I being made to suffer because of it?

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Its probably standard

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wwinterj25 posted...

Why would you think that? You're claiming unemployment thus unemployed and need to provide things someone who unemployed would.

Resumes are there so they know people are looking for a job, I have a job so I don't need to look for a new one, I just need the government to give me the money they owe me

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Imagine having a cough for years from working in a talc factory and trying to get a job right now....
Even fork truck experience won't save you apparently.

Looking for work right now in some areas/situations at least is impossible/pointless....

Muscles posted...

Resumes are there so they know people are looking for a job, I have a job so I don't need to look for a new one, I just need the government to give me the money they owe me

Provided your work manages to survive the closure, which isn't a guarantee. It's not unreasonable to have to demonstrate that you're able and willing to look for new work if that's what it comes to, especially where you've probably spent about as much time reading and responding to this topic as it would take to slap together a resume. Even more so where the resume in question doesn't even have to be something that would actually get you hired.

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It takes like 10 minutes to write a resume. Jesus.

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Smarkil posted...

It takes like 10 minutes to write a resume. Jesus.

Is it really that quick? I've never written one, but its more the principle that there is many people that don't need new jobs because the government forced our jobs to temporarily close but they still want to force a job search on us

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Smarkil posted...

It takes like 10 minutes to write a resume. Jesus.

Maybe if you've been a housewife all your life.

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Veedrock- posted...

Maybe if you've been a housewife all your life.

I've had like 20 different jobs in my life. If you're not trimming your resume down to one page MAYBE 2 pages, you're doing it wrong.

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Muscles posted...

Is it really that quick? I've never written one, but its more the principle that there is many people that don't need new jobs because the government forced our jobs to temporarily close but they still want to force a job search on us

just be a big boy and make a resume

its easy

if something ever happened with your current job youll have one handy and if not then its really not a big deal

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Smarkil posted...

I've had like 20 different jobs in my life. If you're not trimming your resume down to one page MAYBE 2 pages, you're doing it wrong

Is your resume just a list of jobs and job titles? Because it's not about length it's about content, anything more descript than a list is taking a lot longer than you're saying. Then there's formatting which can be time consuming. Hell I think it'd take me 10 minutes to retype my resume even if I had a printed copy next to me, you're definitely not typing a whole page from nothing in that time frame.

You might have an outline in 10 minutes if you know exactly what you're doing, but making something professional and presentable is a real undertaking.

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Veedrock- posted...

Is your resume just a list of jobs and job titles? Because it's not about length it's about content, anything more descript than a list is taking a lot longer than you're saying. Then there's formatting which can be time consuming. Hell I think it'd take me 10 minutes to retype my resume even if I had a printed copy next to me.

You might have an outline in 10 minutes if you know exactly what you're doing, but making something professionally presentable is a real undertaking.

He didn't say you'd make a good resume in 10 minutes, haha.

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Muscles posted...

Why are they forcing people to make a resume just for them? Seems like they should just have a "I temporarily lost my job due to covid 19" button and skip the extra shit for people that are actually unemployed

Muscles The entire business world is based on digging holes and filling them back up. Just find a template online and spend 10 minutes filling it out with one or two jobs and education.

Smarkil posted...

I've had like 20 different jobs in my life. If you're not trimming your resume down to one page MAYBE 2 pages, you're doing it wrong.

20?? Thats not always a good thing to employers lmao

I rock a 1 pager when my field standard is like 4+ apparently when I review resumes.

4 jobs had, 3 go on the resume.

need to figure out how to get my research on there, cant really figure it out

Muscles posted...

Resumes are there so they know people are looking for a job, I have a job so I don't need to look for a new one, I just need the government to give me the money they owe me

You're claiming unemployment. You're owed nothing. You may not need a job but when claiming unemployment it's implying you're looking for work.

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Veedrock- posted...

Is your resume just a list of jobs and job titles? Because it's not about length it's about content, anything more descript than a list is taking a lot longer than you're saying. Then there's formatting which can be time consuming. Hell I think it'd take me 10 minutes to retype my resume even if I had a printed copy next to me, you're definitely not typing a whole page from nothing in that time frame.

You might have an outline in 10 minutes if you know exactly what you're doing, but making something professional and presentable is a real undertaking.

He ain't writing Shakespeare here guy. He's just fulfilling an employment requirement. Besides, at his skill level really no one cares about a resume or CV. Depending on the situation, I limit my resume to the past five years of work plus any other relevant positions for what I'm applying for. Your most recent/relevant job is where you prioritize enumerating your experience and then the others you can basically bullet your tasks.

SpeeDLeemon posted...

20?? Thats not always a good thing to employers lmao

The actual count is 14. I'm in my 30's and started working at 15. I've also worked a number of jobs concurrently and a couple of them were seasonal gigs. In any case, to date I can count on both hands the number of jobs I've qualified for and haven't been offered.

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So did you finally make one?

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Sarcasthma posted...

So did you finally make one?

Lol. You know he hasnt.

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wwinterj25 posted...

You're claiming unemployment. You're owed nothing. You may not need a job but when claiming unemployment it's implying you're looking for work.

You dont know how America works, quit acting like you do.

you see, in America, one person will put their resume as they have been instructed to do and actually legitimately look for a new job after they have been truly laid off, and they will receive nothing. Then a piece of trash like muscles who is like wHy Do We HaVe To FiLL oUt A rEsUmE will get 2 grand a week for 18 months.

FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...

Lol. You know he hasnt.

I did Friday
MICHALECOLE posted...

Then a piece of trash like muscles who is like wHy Do We HaVe To FiLL oUt A rEsUmE will get 2 grand a week for 18 months.

This doesn't make sense, are you saying I should I get a new job because the government temporarily shut down my current job? Or people who are temporarily out of work due to the government shouldn't get unemployment?

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https://resumegenius.com/

This is the site I used, but it is one of hundreds of sites that give you a resume by just answering a few questions. And bonus, if you are using it to collect unemployment, you don't even need to worry spending the time using fancy language to make yourself stand out.

MICHALECOLE posted...

you see, in America, one person will put their resume as they have been instructed to do and actually legitimately look for a new job after they have been truly laid off, and they will receive nothing.

If you have been laid off, then you are collecting a severance (unless you were fired, which is different). You can't collect unemployment and a severance at the same time, that would be double dipping.

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Muscles posted...

You would think if you only lost your job temporarily because of the shut down you wouldn't need all that extra shit

I don't have a resume because I don't need one, what are people like me supposed to do to get paid for this bs?

Just a bit of history for you. Back in the 1980s when Reagan was Pres, the GOP frowned on anything that Government did to help people so they started labeling people as "freeloaders" and "lazy" if they were unemployed through no fault of their own and that sentiment was echoed by the people who claimed they never got anything from government so as time moved on the GOP started chipping away at things like "Unemployment", "Workman's Comp", "Food Stamps" etc to make it more difficult for people to apply and receive help when needed and that's how we got here.

Newt Gingrich openly bragged at the Heritage Foundation that the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress were going to break out of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt model. That model, of course, created what we today refer to as the middle class.\

FDR created Unemployment Benefits in the 1930s in his New Deal Programs after witnessing Americans suffer greatly during the Great Depression.

Ever since the election of Ronald Reagan, Republicans have been working overtime to kneecap institutions that support the American middle class. And, as any working-class family can tell you, the GOP has had some substantial successes, particularly in shifting both income and political power away from voters and towards billionaires and transnational corporations.


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Muscles posted...

I did Friday

This doesn't make sense, are you saying I should I get a new job because the government temporarily shut down my current job? Or people who are temporarily out of work due to the government shouldn't get unemployment?

In our state the work search option isn't being enforced but we still need to be registered on a work search site and that requires us to have a resume on file. I guess it's a backup plan for when the state opens back up in case people remain laid off due to businesses closing for good.

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If you're fling unemployment claims due to being idle because of COVID-19, there should not be any job search requirements. That's my understanding.

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