Posted by: Saundra
Unemployment - 01/21/09 02:36 AM
For anyone who was following the thread under "Please vote for me" when I admitted I had a problem (lost my job), I have some answers.
All that crap we read on the Internet is misleading. It looks like they use only 4 quarters out of the last 5 highest. I was told it would take at least 14 days and that they are behind. I received my paperwork in today's mail - just a little over one week.
Here in Florida, all unemployment offices were closed and they opened "One Stop Career Centers" where you can use their computers to sign up for unemployment, printers to print 5 copies of your resume, surf the web for jobs, ask questions they have no answers for, etc.
I got help with my resume since it's been awhile and some of the rules have changed. Education now goes at the bottom instead of the top. Resumes are to be 1-1/2 pages, but mine is 2 pages because I'm old. She said it's because of ageism and I said, "They'll know how old I am when they see me."
I've had a good experience with them, if you can call unemployment a good experience.
All that crap we read on the Internet is misleading. It looks like they use only 4 quarters out of the last 5 highest. I was told it would take at least 14 days and that they are behind. I received my paperwork in today's mail - just a little over one week.
Here in Florida, all unemployment offices were closed and they opened "One Stop Career Centers" where you can use their computers to sign up for unemployment, printers to print 5 copies of your resume, surf the web for jobs, ask questions they have no answers for, etc.
I got help with my resume since it's been awhile and some of the rules have changed. Education now goes at the bottom instead of the top. Resumes are to be 1-1/2 pages, but mine is 2 pages because I'm old. She said it's because of ageism and I said, "They'll know how old I am when they see me."
I've had a good experience with them, if you can call unemployment a good experience.