(Those who went back to former skills and worked as bartenders or carpenters or auto mechanics wrote a new "skills-oriented" resume from scratch - to the extent that it mattered, since trade jobs are often decided in a five-minute interview).
Robert Halfon, a former skills minister, is calling on the Conservative leader to answer Jeremy Corbyn's offer to working people laid out at the Labour conference.
She had ever since John Goldman, her former skills coach from nearby Chappaqua, N.Y., showed her how to "make myself taller" by using the backboard on shots, and how to stay low so that defenses would not know when she was coming up to shoot, which she likes to do off the dribble.
"Not really believing in coincidences, I found myself absorbing [Greenpeace press officer] Ben Stewart's recounting of the adventures of The Arctic Thirty at exactly the same time as being urged by my friend and colleague, Hani Farsi, to use my former skills to highlight my environmental concerns".
While she is retired as a lobbyist, she expected to use her former skills.
And those former workers' skill sets run the gamut: One so-called 99-weeker worked as an electrician and maintenance person; some are in the health care field; many are fluent in computer skills and never let their laptops out of their sight for fear of missing a moment of an all-encompassing job search.
He said it "beggars belief" the commonwealth would ask states and territories to sign up to reforms in review conducted by former New Zealand skills minister Steve Joyce "after having pulled the rug from what was promised and funded under the SAF".
Last season the former Ireland skills coach also steered Ulster to the Pro12 play-offs.
"When I coached him for Wales, Gavin was a wonderfully gifted kid," said the former Wales skills coach.
Johnson, a former Wales skills and assistant coach, left the role of USA Eagles national coach to join the Ospreys for the start of the 2009-10 season.
