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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 309455" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Susie, I can see him relaxing to <em>some</em> extent and enjoying working at the sporting events, etc, but I can see why you are nervous about this complacency (sp), too. I think maybe your should get him to sit down with you and search for jobs on the internet and apply to them. In this market, putting a resume on the internet is not aggressive enough, in my humble opinion. Employers don't need to take their time searching people's resumes and I doubt they will. The unemployed person really needs to search for any available employment in their field and send the resume to that company, individually, with a nice cover letter. You can save this in a template file and just copy cliip the body and tailor it for each employer so it's easier than it used to be now that we have the internet and email. It sounds to me like you are going to have to hold his hand thru this and maybe even do some of it for him. I know I went thru a period where I couldn't stand the thought of dealing with it because I was so discouraged by the lack of available work. Maybe he's got some of that going on too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 309455, member: 3699"] Susie, I can see him relaxing to [I]some[/I] extent and enjoying working at the sporting events, etc, but I can see why you are nervous about this complacency (sp), too. I think maybe your should get him to sit down with you and search for jobs on the internet and apply to them. In this market, putting a resume on the internet is not aggressive enough, in my humble opinion. Employers don't need to take their time searching people's resumes and I doubt they will. The unemployed person really needs to search for any available employment in their field and send the resume to that company, individually, with a nice cover letter. You can save this in a template file and just copy cliip the body and tailor it for each employer so it's easier than it used to be now that we have the internet and email. It sounds to me like you are going to have to hold his hand thru this and maybe even do some of it for him. I know I went thru a period where I couldn't stand the thought of dealing with it because I was so discouraged by the lack of available work. Maybe he's got some of that going on too. [/QUOTE]
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