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Silicon Valley |
Privet! Menya zovut Lilllya (LL). I will be around trying to help you, guys: answering your questions and sharing some valuable tips that helped me to land a job within a month during this miserable recession. I’m NOT a professional career coach! Rather an experienced job searcher with knowledge that goes far away from public online job boards. It's a very tough time outthere. Especially, for high-techs.
I’m representating here our new and powerful community of x-Soviet USA Professionals, Free (FREE!) job club, DaNetwork. It's a support and networking group, ready for new members to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DaNetwork
DaNet is about helping x-Soviet immigrants in US to find jobs (regardless of field), developing job-related contacts, improving job search and generally about being there for each other in this dead job market. We talk to friends/former coworkers
about current job openings, develop private networking leads, proofread each other resumes, write together a good cover letters, point to the personal contact at a particular company, refer recruiters, answer difficult questions, post “nostalgic” US jobs in x-USSR, suggest career events, provide advices on finding survival jobs, and share most unusual ways of job searching. We learn from each other as we progress. We try making friends for a lifetime, and most important, we try to have FUN! Our community has people of all fields, from novice to highly experienced, personal business owners, and freelancers, firefighters and PhDs in Physics. We are all different, and we are all the same. ‘Cuz we are from the same country, have same values and share same mistakes, and we better understand each other then anybody else. In addition, we also have many useful resources for job-seekers: excellent & rare job links, templates for resume and cover letter, cold calling scripts, etc. and resumes. To Subscribe to DaNetwork: either use your@yahoo.com e-mail to subscribe via web (highly recommended), or send an empty e-mail to DaNetwork-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
I would like to thank a creator of RusNetUSA Russian portal and suggest you to visit a main page http://www.rusnetusa.com/fqarnu/ You may also upload your resume here at http://www.rusnetusa.com/job Pls, remember: Our success in our
unity! Vmeste my – sila, a razdelno – solomenki ot venika. Voprosi ? :-)
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Silicon Valley |
This doc was written today for Californians and we hope it may help you out..
Handout for Unemployed Professionals
Author: Luba Koroleva danet_usa@yahoo.com
Written Exclusively for http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DaNetwork - Networking
and Support group of Russian professionals in USA
The goal of this handout is to help unemployed professionals to understand some issues of unemployment benefits. It is created as a result of real life situations and negative experience that many of us came through. Hopefully, it would help you to make fewer mistakes in that difficult period of recession and improve your financial life for a while. Please, read this carefully.
• How to prolong your UI benefits (Unemployment Insurance)
First and very important! There are 26-week period for the first period of your claim that government grants to every laid off professional. In order to be eligible for UI you must be fired/laid off from your work against your wish. If you are eligible for unemployment through EDD office, have this link handy http://www.edd.cahwnet.gov
It contains important information about your eligibility, benefits, forms and etc. But some information is not that obvious, like, how to prolong your UI benefits. It is about FIRST 16 weeks of receiving your UI benefits when you can claim training benefits extension. It is so tricky so many people just unaware about how it is important. You can prolong receiving your UI benefits for a period of one year or more! It can also cost you ineligibility for the unemployment extension (second 26 period of your claim).
• How to claim California Training Benefits for unemployment extension.
They’re few ways to claim California Training Benefits.
1. Call to EDD office by the toll free number, which is available in the mentioned link or in blue brochure that EDD will send you by mail. Usually it takes a while, line is busy and you almost get no information about benefits, but at least your call will be recorder with date that should fit into your 16 weeks period starting from the date when you claimed your unemployment.
2. Go to any local EDD office (best), address that should be provided in any local yellow pages, or link above and ask where and when you can have workshop about training benefits. Usually every local EDD office provides such workshops or any other information meetings. There some famous names for local places like NOVA, One-Stop location that totally devoted to help unemployed people find the job by providing a lot of job search assistance workshops etc. When you come to this workshop, EDD staff will collect information about you with name, SSN and date when you came to this meeting.
And again this date should fit into 16 weeks period, as sooner as better.
3. After you requested training benefit, you could wait for a month or more when EDD will contact you and personally assign you a case manager. Here, it really depends on what training provider you can
go to, or even single caseworker. Some people are lucky, some not. But one thing to be sure about:
that you will be fully eligible to claim your UI extension because you claimed your training benefits during this 16-week period. It is a magic number. From my experience, I found out that NOVA organization is less bureaucratic than One-Stop, but I wouldn’t put it as rule, it could be very subjective opinion.
• What kind of training you can be eligible for?
Every EDD training benefit provider has a list of eligible training schools that they can consider be suitable for you. This is UCSC extension, San Jose State University, community colleges, some private certification programs. Some schools are really good and cost is not cheap. But EDD can pay for it if they have money funds. For the beginning of this year all EDD got new funds for people who wants to get training, but those who claimed training benefits in 2001. As my guess and obvious thing this money can be devastated very fast because of big demand on unemployed market. But you can go local community college, which is ch
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Silikonka |
This was posted today by one of Danet members, i find it extremely useful and wanted to share with some of you who needs help with immigration/work related issues, which are especially hot nova days when many H1 professionals in USA lose a job
LL
From: "Sonny Cline"
To: Danetwork@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri Sep 20, 2002 5:47 pm
Subject: [DaNet] a variety of 'chatlog' transcripts.
This URL is the gateway to a number of chatroom logs regarding mainly
specific questions and answers to various work related immigration issues:
http://www.usvisanews.com/chatlogs.html
The main URL will allow you to subscribe to the free immigration work
related email list.
Sonny Cline
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