An award for the quintessential college, career, and job sites.
Quintessential Careers honors one career or job site each issue of
QuintZine
with the Quintessential Careers Site Award in recognition of
quintessential efforts in helping job-seekers.
Unemployed Workers describes itself as an "on-line forum created after the
2001 recession for the nation's jobless and underemployed workers. Now
again, in 2008, with another recession threatening millions of hard-working
families, this Website provides a timely resource to learn more about the
key programs available to workers and communities hard hit by the economy,
to share experiences and concerns, and to participate in the national debate
to stimulate the economy and make sure families get the aid they need to
find good-paying jobs. "
The site's main sections cover extending jobless benefits, offering
resources for unemployed workers (including links to government Websites
designed to help workers access current benefit programs), providing an
opportunity "for workers to share and document [in a Worker Forum] their
concerns and experiences coping with today's especially tight job market and
to pose questions of common interest to other workers," and reporting
helpful statistics that "document the new realities of long-term
unemployment and the need for an extension of federal jobless benefits."
The site also sends out action alerts to those who sign up for them.
