Weekly Work Search Activities
You must complete work-search activities that are meant to help you return to work. Work search can and should include a mixture of activities, including contacting potential employers, completing applications, and interviewing for jobs. You must document your efforts and save those records because you will be asked to report the activities you completed when you request payment each week. Your claim may be audited and your reported work-search activities will be verified at any time up to two years from the start of your claim. The more work search activities you complete, the sooner you are likely to return to work. We recommend that you complete at least 5 work-search activities per week.
Examples of Verifiable Work Search Activities:
Applying for a job for which you are reasonably qualified
Interviewing for a job for which you are reasonably qualified
Taking an exam required as part of the application process for a new job for which you are reasonably qualified
- Attend an online or in-person job search workshop
- Meet with an Employment Specialist at your local workforce center
Adding a resume to an online job board
View additional work search activity and guidance.
Examples of Verifiable Work Search Activities
- You update your resume and then submit a resume review through Connecting Colorado; the act of updating your resume would not be verifiable but would count as one of your recommended work search activities. Submitting your resume to us for review would count as a verifiable activity since it can be confirmed that we reviewed your resume.
- You attend a Virtual Interviewing workshop through Larimer County Economic and Workforce Development and the next day you practice answering common interview questions with a friend; attending the workshop would be a verifiable activity because we can confirm your attendance. Practicing with a friend cannot be verified but would count as one of your recommended activities.
- You spend 2 hours one day browsing Connecting Colorado for job postings but do not find a position you’d like to apply for. The next day you see a position posted on LinkedIn and submit your resume for that position; applying for the position would be a verifiable activity. Browsing job postings would not be a verifiable activity.
Be sure to document your verifiable work search activities. See documenting work search activities below.
In your MyUI+ account, you will be required to report your work search activity each week, in order to receive your benefit.
Your claim may be audited and your reported work-search activities may be verified at any time up to two years from the start of your claim. Remember to keep a log of what you have reported to Unemployment in the event it is requested for an audit.
Work Search Log Template
