As of August 2013 I will have spent three years with a local job search ministry. Most of that time I spent as a job seeker. The ministry has a collection of resources that the leadership shares with job seekers during their search. This isn't something they share with every job seeker and they don't always share all of the resources.
You can think of these resources as a collection of material over time. As leadership sees a need in a job seeker, they share a specific resource. In 2012 and 2013 I began to realize that the resources were not well organized and there was no way to quickly offer someone a resource or even the entire collection. I (with permission from leadership and the authors) took it upon myself to organize the resources and put them in a logical order.
From these resources I have created a "Handbook for the Recently Unemployed". This handbook is the entire collection organized in a logical manner. It is designed to be accessed online but the material can be downloaded and stored on a local computer. I have also sectioned the material into logical and smaller collections so that if a job seeker has a specific need, leadership can share those smaller pieces (and not overwhelm the job seeker).
Understand that I am not the author of the core material; that credit goes to the late Bob Costello and the leadership team at First United Methodist Church Employment Transition Ministry in Tulsa OK. I have written some of the material and it is easy to discern which parts; any material not written by me will credit the author at the top & bottom of each page. All formatting can be credited to me, none of the documents in this compilation are originals; some are from scans of paper documents and some are manual transcriptions. I am also responsible for organizing the material in a manner that "flows" logically, can be easily shared and connecting all the separate pieces together. Finally I compressed the entire, and smaller, collections into self-extracting ZIP files in order to facilitate ease of download and simplify the process for the recipient.
Because of this work I consider the Handbook to be a positive example of my instructional design work and therefore I am sharing it here.
The entire Handbook for the Recently Unemployed collection
Folder containing un-zipped files
Folder containing ZIP files
