Posts Tagged ‘Layoffs’

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.

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Companies Announce Layoffs on Blogs

November 13th, 2008 by Susan P. Joyce

How times have changed!  In a recent NY Times blog post, Claire Cain Miller reported that companies are trying to get ahead of misleading information (a.k.a. gossip) by annoucing the layoffs in the employer’s blog.  The examples were in Silicon Valley where technology addiction is particularly high, but the tactics will no doubt spread to less techie regions.

So, if your employer has a blog, check on it occasionally to see what is posted.  If the company is large enough to have an independent blog covering it, check that too – looking for the layoff info.

This is being viewed as a more “personal” way to make the announcements and, obviously, an attempt to try to control the message spin.  Other interpretations will happen, none-the-less, but at least employers are trying to be more communicative.

Overall, I think this is a good thing.  We’ll see how it develops.

Job Search Strategies for Long-Term Unemployment

October 5th, 2008 by Susan P. Joyce

The official August to September U.S. Unemployment Rate stayed steady at 6.1%. Not bad news (although we hope for better, of course).

On the other hand, the “long term” number has climbed to over 20% of those currently counted as unemployed. The “seasonally adjusted” rate for September is 21.1%, a 1.5% increase over August’s seasonally adjusted rate of 19.5%. (more…)

Layoff Self-Defense

September 16th, 2008 by Susan P. Joyce

Many people are losing their jobs right now, through mass layoffs, corporate restructuring, and other events outside of their control.  If possible, finding the new job before the old one evaporates is the best strategy.

4 Layoff Facts:

1. Layoffs should NOT be taken personally, except by the CEO. For everyone else, a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time – not bad performance!

2. A job seeker is more interesting to another employer when still employed (a.k.a. “passive” job seeker). Unemployed (a.k.a. “active” ) job seekers are less desirable.

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