Registration with the job center of Wisconsin website must be done once at the start of every benefit year. Usually, with each new benefit year of yours you will get a notice that looks like this or this. On the claim-filing portal, you see a notice similar to the following:
Note: You can compare the Department’s 2013 FAQ with the current FAQ.
Once logged on to the jobcenterofwisconsin.com website with your user-id and password (separate from your claim-filing user-id and password at my.unemployment.wisconsin.gov), select Job Seekers | My JCW to see what your current status is.
At the next screen, three boxes will be displayed. If the third box is unchecked or has an X, then you need to renew your jobcenter registration for the year.
Note: The first time you register (i.e., you create a user-id and password for this website), you will need to take a skills survey by answering questions about your job skills (the number of questions asked of you depends on your answers). That skills survey is the second box above, and so far this skills survey only needs to be done once. In the past, the website has prompted you to take this survey as soon as your user-id and password is created. As noted here, however, this skills survey does not complete your job center registration.
This website does NOT allow you to upload a résumé. And, having a résumé already on file with the job center website is not sufficient. Instead, each benefit year you need to *create” again new résumé by answering a series of questions about your occupation and job history.
To start this résumé-creation-process, click on the word Resume in the third box. You will be taken to the Resume posting tool screen.
Click on the + symbol on the left to start the process for creating a new résumé. As you click through the screens, follow all the directions and answer the questions as best you can. The questions will be asking you to select a specific occupational category/code for each job you list, employer contact information, and start and end dates for each job. Your education and any licenses you have will also need to be listed.
Note: The quality of the “résumé” you create is not that important, so do not delay in order to get the résumé done right. The key is to get this process completed as quickly as possible, as you must complete this process within the first two weeks of your benefit year. Any further delay will mean no unemployment benefits paid to you until this registration requirement is completed.
You know you will have successfully the registration process when you see three check marks for your job registration.
As obvious here, this registration requirement is on-line only.