The Central Kentucky Job Club is an effort by the University of Kentucky to teach people skills that will make them better job applicants.

The club is free, open to all ages and meets via Zoom twice a month.

We talked with UC's director of career Service about what the organization has to offer.

Americans are changing jobs about every 3 to 4 years by choice or not.

So we all need to be ready for our next hop or move.

Sometimes we can plan for it, sometimes we can't.

So there are many things that we can be doing along the way to be prepared.

Dog clubs been around since 2013.

As a career counselor coming off the heels of the Great Recession, which was really from about to 2009 to 2012, I saw a lot of individual clients who had lost their jobs very unexpectedly.

These were people that never imagined they would be out of work.

It was heartbreaking.

People that had never had to look for a job before were all of a sudden worried about how they were going to make their mortgage payments.

And I thought, something needs to be done to help so many people in our community that didn't know how to job seek.

And that's how Job Club came about.

The purpose of Job Club is to provide a positive place for people to connect, learn and get more focused on their job search goals.

So ideally, we are targeting people that are underemployed, laid off, people that are looking to make a career transition.

Also, we have a lot of baby boomers, Gen Xers, who are like late career that would like to try something totally new and they have no idea where to start.

So it's been fun to work with folks that are looking to reinvent themselves.

We've been fortunate to have wonderful speakers.

These are volunteer speakers from the community and beyond.

We often have professional speakers on topics from around the country that have joined us.

We do tap a lot of local employers and professionals, as well as people that are in the training and coaching industry and other content experts.

But each semester we always have a program on how to write a better resume, how to utilize LinkedIn and interviewing.

It's helped a lot of people learn how to job search, learn how to write resumes, improve their interview skills, get more focused on their job search, learn how to use LinkedIn.

It's been a wonderful community partnership.

Since its inception, Job Club has had over 10,000 participants.

Good job.