Our library's experience with job seekers mostly involves them using the computers to fill out applications. This modules gave me some good links and resources to present to our patrons in the future.
The Texas Workskills Development page was pretty straight forward for me (someone with computer experience), so I don't think a person with limited computer experience would have a problem. The format was divided in a logical way (resumes, searches, etc), and then it was a matter of clicking links.
The Computer Basics page provided by the Goodwill was SO helpful. I know this would be a tremendous benefit for our patrons who don't have much computer experience. The language was easy to understand and the pictures were relevant. I'm definitely bookmarking the site and plan to tell our patrons about it.
At our library we allow patrons extra time on the computer (they are usually limited to one hour) when completing applications or job searching, and when they have a question about something on an application we try to help as much as we can. We help with resumes as much as we can (formatting and printing), but we can't type it up for them (which most want us to do). We could be doing more I suppose.
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