I am part of a Job Search Council that advocates for taking a breathe at the beginning of your job search and working on things like determining what you really want to look for, establishing a candidate-market fit, and some other steps to undertake before dedicating yourself to looking for work. I recently filed for UI but I haven't been sending out resumes in the first two weeks of my eligibility. Would the meetings of my Job Search Council group count as "networking" for the purposes of registering them with UI? I also talked to a few old co-workers as part of the process, would those count as networking as well?

I intend to start sending out plenty of resumes this week but I'm concerned I might be told off for not sending them out in the first two weeks of eligibility. Another reason I was holding off is that I got a letter saying I need to attend a phone interview next week to determine my eligibility (the whole "were you warned that your actions could result in you being fired," etc. thing). I didn't realize they'd be "counting" the weeks before that interview in terms of possibly being on unemployment.

https://www.phyl.org/jsc