Start with real experience
Start with what a participant can describe instead of assuming a blank resume.
A practical Arbor Primus workflow for workforce boards, American Job Centers, reemployment programs, youth programs, veterans programs, and nonprofits.
Workforce-development staff, employment programs, career coaches, and community organizations.
Participants may have valuable skills that are spread across past jobs, caregiving, military service, hobbies, training, and life experience.
Start with what a participant can describe instead of assuming a blank resume.
Use a Tree to organize capability, evidence, goals, and learning needs.
Let each person decide what becomes public, private, or part of a resume.
Each step stands on its own. The next step is always yours to choose.
Run a skills-discovery workshop.
Build a foundation from real experience.
Use the resulting profile to plan a next step or prepare an application.
The free foundation stays useful before you decide whether to add proof, verification, paid outputs, or sharing.