Job Termination

Cutting your job losses

In these difficult economic times, professionals may be shifting their focus from mobility to stability. Rather than looking for the next big thing, keeping your current gig, in the face of mounting job losses, may suddenly seem like a good idea.

By the Jobboom Publishing team
[ 2009-03-19 ]

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Strategies for keeping your job generally break down into two categories: impressing the boss and not goofing up. Rank-and-file employees may be unable to re-brand themselves overnight as indispensable to their companies, but given today’s job prospects it may be worth a shot. While it’s true that everyone makes mistakes, now’s not the time for the hapless employees to attract additional attention to themselves—easy targets for companies’ axe-wielding henchmen or henchwomen.

Losing your job may seem like the end of the world— food, shelter and family-wise. While sudden change is scary, it’s good to keep everything in perspective. A valuable, first step may be to sit down and have a frank but dignified conversation with your former employer. Was it a performance issue or was it simply due to downsizing?

Either way, a new book guides the recently unemployed through the week-by-week process for streamlining their lives after layoffs. Most importantly, don’t leave the house before progressing past the second stage of grieving—anger. In order to move on, divide your friends between shoulders-to-cry-on and helping-hands. They can’t be both.

Once you’ve bottomed-out, you may begin to rebuild. There are five positive points that all individuals can walk away with after losing their jobs. It’s important to learn from your past mistakes so that you don’t repeat them next time.




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