Posts Tagged ‘job search support’

Do More than Send a Sorry-You-Got-Laid-Off Card

October 16th, 2011 by Susan P. Joyce

I think this is a fabulous idea – as long as the card isn’t snarky or sent with a mean spirit.  I’ve also seen “Happy Lay Off” cards that can be very funny, if you’re in the mood.

But, I also wouldn’t stop with only a card, even if the card is wonderful. There are so many more things you can do for someone who has just lost their job.

When you’ve been laid off, you can feel like an escapee (if you’re lucky) or like a failure or a victim, and sometimes you feel awkward about reaching back to people you saw every day but who are now employed where you were once employed.

You also feel cut off from your colleagues – from your (former) support network at work.  With luck, and a little effort, colleagues can transform into a network outside of work, too.

So that card is a great start.  And then: (more…)

Welcome Nan S. Russell, Job-Hunt’s Job Loss Recovery Expert!

October 8th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

This week, we are very pleased to welcome author, syndicated columnist, and former HR executive Nan S. Russell, to the roster of accomplished job search and career professionals contributing their expert advice to help Job-Hunt’s visitors. 

As Job-Hunt’s Job Loss Recovery Expert, Nan will  help Job-Hunt’s visitors bounce back after job loss through her articles in Job-Hunt’s new Job Loss Recovery section.  To get started, read Nan’s first article, 3 Tracks to Accelerate Your Job Loss Recovery.

Nan has a B.A. from Stanford University in Psychology and a M.A. from the University of Michigan in Educational Psychology.  Leader of the popular Rebooting After Job Loss seminars, Nan will help those Job-Hunt visitors who have lost their jobs, or who have friends or family members who have lost jobs, to recover from this often-traumatic experience. 

Nan has experienced the trauma of being fired - from her first professional job after college, no less.  So, although she moved on to a very successful career as both an HR executive and line manager, even heading a subsidiary, she has personal knowledge of how painful and difficult recovering from a job loss can be. 

Since 2006, Nan has been President of MountainWorks Communications LLC, a company she founded to support her passion for helping organizations build winning work cultures, and helping people bring the best of who they are to the world, realize their dreams, and live their life’s potential. 

Nan’s first book, Nibble Your Way to Success: 56 Winning Tips for Taking Charge of Your Career, debuted in March, 2007.  Her second book, Hitting Your Stride: Your Work, Your Way, released in January, 2008 by Capital Books, won a 2009 Axiom Business Book Award.  Currently, Nan is working on book three: NEXT! Rebooting After Job Loss.  Her work insights column, Winning at Working appears in over ninety publications.

Nan’s education, experience as an HR executive, plus her personal experience with job loss, will provide Job-Hunt’s visitors with helpful and very well-informed articles on this often-difficult transition from job loss to re-employment.  Yes, it does happen!  Even in this economy!

For more from Nan, follow her on Twitter at @Nan_Russell, visit her NanRussell.com Website, and read her Winning at Working column.

Meet all of Job-Hunt’s  Job Search Experts.

New Job-Hunt Articles + Career Spotlight

September 1st, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Career Spotlight: If you have a commercial drivers license or can pass the test to get one, you may want to look into becoming a Delivery Vehicle Driver.  They earn an average of $28,000 /year, with expected 10-year job growth of 8%. This is a good job for someone without a college degree since only 4% hold a bachelor’s degree. More about other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

We added five new Job-Hunt articles in the last two weeks:

Good luck with your job search!

Job Search Success Postponed

December 20th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

“I wasted this whole year, doing everything wrong.”

That’s the sad comment a job seeker made to me last week as we were leaving a WIND-West job search support group meeting in Westborough, MA.  She had been an active participant in the meeting, asking many questions, clearly a well-educated, highly- intelligent, and experienced professional who had been focused on job hunting since being laid off in January.

What I think she did wrong:

She waited a year before attending a job search support group meeting.

Get help with your job search. NOW!

Doing a job search with no coaching or support is akin to diving off a diving board without knowing how to either dive or swim. For most of us, job hunting is a lonely, discouraging process, with many land mines to trip up the inexperienced and/or unwary.

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