Skills training during unemployment

Many people take advantage of the time they have while they are not working to increase their skill set to make them more appealing to potential employers. In a previous post we looked at some free, online resources for skills training. This post will examine some resources that are not free but will be worth pursuing for many people.

You can become an Adobe Certified Expert - if you work with certain software, why not prove you know it really well? Download the study material, and take the test at a local testing center. Testing is not available online, but there are centers here in Israel that offer the tests. Two companies that run centers that offer these certification tests are Prometric and Pearson, Adobe has a list online and you can search for the one nearest you.
http://www.adobe.com/support/certification/ace.html

Then you can take the next step and become a certified instructor - http://www.adobe.com/support/certification/aci.html. It's an extra level of certification for your resume, plus perhaps you can teach the software, once you are certified, and make some money while looking for a new job

There are local training centers, like Compuskills, that offer practical courses as well, some also for college credit and some for professional certification. Some cater to women, some are mixed, find one that suits your needs.

There are several community colleges in the US that offer classes online. Community colleges offer more practical courses than senior college so you can learn skills like management, MS Office, Flash, web programming, etc. Use Google to find someplace that offers what you are looking for.

Good luck, and more importantly, enjoy!