Hi everyone i have a quick update for you on the announcement that came out last week on the 17th
from EDD. They have announced that they're going to be doing work search requirements going forward
in July starting on the 11th and I wanted to make a really simple video for those of you and I'll
make another one for those of you with PUA but this video is for those of you with UI and PEUC
extensions and it is going to impact you but there's actually some really good news about
this whole piece right? A lot of different states have very rigorous requirements for
how they need you to conduct your work searches and California has I think done
a pretty nice job of striking the balance. So let me kind of tell you what's going on
so starting July 11th you if you have a UI or PEUC extension you will be required every two weeks
during your bi-weekly certifications and what that means is basically from what I can understand
you will be certifying when you certify for your weekly benefits you'll see a question
about your work search activity starting July 11th. This will ask you have you been searching
for work and there may be a few more questions we don't have any screenshots yet but it looks
like it's more or less a self-certification well actually it is a complete self certification
you're going to state yes that you've been looking for work yes you're available for work
and they've got some more details here but here's the the short of it. So what you
need to be looking for in terms of suitable work during this period after July 11th is that you
need to be looking for work that's comparable to what job you had before you became unemployed. So
this is huge right? Like if you were making you know say I don't know 20 bucks an hour
maybe working at Costco or something like that making 40k a year you don't need to be applying
for jobs that pay less. Same thing if you're a lawyer and you aren't working because you're
unemployed you don't need to go and apply for that job at Costco because that's not matching
your skills or expertise it's not a comparable job and at the same side you'll see that
if you let's say worked in a lower income industry you don't need to apply for jobs that are outside
of your skill set either so you don't need to apply up and if you have a higher paying job you
don't need to apply down and that's really really important news. So the next thing that I think is
really key here is that they are not asking for you to submit your weekly certification documents
like they do in many other states and why that's so important is it's just going to save you a ton
of time and this is how I really recommend that you guys do it. They are requiring you to register
with CALJOBS and it's actually a really good way to go about getting all this taken care of because
what you're going to want is you're going to want to maintain records of your search right and you
know you could do this with an excel sheet or you could do this you know writing it down
but there's an even easier way. So if you're going to CALJOBS create your profile there and
what you can do is you can find jobs that you know are comparable to what you had before you became
unemployed and apply for those positions and the cool thing is is that CALJOBS, EDD can see it.
Like they can reference it and what that means is that CALJOBS will track how many positions
you're applying for every week and that's that's super great right because even if it's a job that
you don't get an interview for or so on and so forth that's you putting in the required work
after July 11th to show that you're actually trying to find work. So these are not guidelines
that EDD has set but these are just some basic recommendations that I've seen from other states
that other state unemployment agencies are using as a minimum requirement. I'd recommend at the
minimum that you're applying for three jobs a week so what is that that's 12 jobs a month
if you really want to be on the safe side of that. Though i would recommend that you're applying for
three to five jobs a week it's not hard on CALJOBS you can search through, find the jobs that you're
interested in and they keep a record of that so you don't have to do any work and what's
important about this is that EDD has stated that they're not going to be checking on your
bi-weekly work certification requirements. But if there is ever a question that they do come up with
they will ask you for those records so you want to be prepared well I've actually been unemployed for
quite a long time and I can tell you that keeping your own manual records is a pain so this is why
I'd highly recommend that you do search for jobs on CALJOBS and apply through that because you
know if they ever ask. Which they may or may not you can easily go to your CALJOBS portal,
you can take a screenshot of the positions that you've applied to and you can submit that to EDD
if they were to request that. The other thing that they're recommending is that it's not just CALJOBS
you know you can go to Indeed you know Linkedin and I just recommend that you're applying on these
electronic sites that you have an account with and the reason being is that you can actively keep
track of how many positions you're applying for on that bi-weekly basis that you need to certify
for so I think that's really important right guys it's like they're not asking for the documentation
they're asking to self-certify but you do want to be prepared that you know if they were to ever
check which they're not stating that they are going to but in case they but they are leaving
that option open that you have that documentation ready and you can snap it up in like you know a
couple minutes so do it that way and I really think that again showing good faith by looking
at applying for positions you know three to five a week that's a reasonable effort and that should
meet the mandate that you know California is going to be putting out here as of July 11th so hope
that answered some questions or confusion that you might have and this is again only for those of you
with UI or the PEU extensions and I'll be doing my next video because the requirements for people
that have PUA claims are actually completely different so yeah that video will be coming up
if you guys have any questions please let me know in the comments as always and thanks a lot!