Posts Tagged ‘layoff survival’

Welcome GL Hoffman! New Job Hunt Articles + Career Spotlight

July 18th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Welcome GL Hoffman!  Job-Hunt’s only Expert-at-Large

This week, we very proudly welcome our newest Job Hunt Expert, GL Hoffman Job-Hunt’s “Expert at Large.”

GL is a serial entrepreneur and mentor, having founded two companies that “went public” providing excellent learning experiences for GL. Currently, he is chairman of JobDig which operates Job-Hunt Sponsor LinkUp, one of the fastest-growing job-search engines. His blog can be found at WhatWouldDadSay.com.  His latest book is StartUp, 100 Tips to Get Your Business Going, available in print at www.startup100tips.com or ebook at www.wiseandwiser.com. GL also blogs for US News & World Reports and FastCompany.

GL’s first Job-Hunt article, Staying Positive at a Tough Time, is a very important one because maintaining a positive attitude is such a difficult aspect of job hunting, yet so important for success in job search.

We also introduced four other new articles this week:

Career Spotlight: If you are knowledgeable about construction and the building trades and comfortable poking around inside buildings, you may want to consider a job as a Building Inspector.  The average salary is $50,000/year; 23% have college degrees; andexpected 10-year job growth is 18%. More information on this and other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

Involuntary Change Can Be Good!

January 18th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Sometimes change we don’t want, change we may even fear and dread, can be very good for us in the long run.

Disasters

I was reminded of this yesterday.  Because of a broken sprinkler head in the office next door in October (!), my office was flooded, and, after 12 weeks of everything-in-boxes, the new floor and carpeting were finally installed Friday.  While we sat out in the hall, surrounded by boxes and office furniture – without the computers or Internet (EEK!) connected -  we decided to  reorganize the layout of the office.

By mid-afternoon, we were back (still in boxes), but with a wonderful new layout in the office!  I’m now SO HAPPY that sprinkler head broke in October.  If it hadn’t, we’d still have the old, inefficient layout (unchanged in 12 years).  Of course, now we must unpack, but we’ll be going through the stuff in the boxes, and (I’ve been informed) throwing out old useless stuff and shredding old documents.  Gee, that does sound like fun…

But we’ll be happier, more efficient, and have much more room when we’re done. (more…)

Don’t Be a Layoff SURVIVOR

November 3rd, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

According to the dictionary, to “graduate” is “to advance to a new level of skill, achievement, or activity.”  SO… Be a layoff GRADUATE, rather than a layoff survivor.

The dictionary says that to “survive” is “to remain alive or in existence.” Surviving is certainly MUCH better than the alternative.

However, think back to the last time you graduated from something.  For most of us, a graduation is the beginning of a new phase of life.  We take what we have learned in the recent past, and apply that knowledge to move in a new direction.

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