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Surviving a Layoff

Type
Link
Cost
Paid
Published
2008
Full Name
Surviving a Layoff: A Week-by-Week Guide to Getting Your Life Back Together

Surviving a Layoff is a practical guide to dealing with the tough questions a layoff poses. Using a week-to-week timeline, the book offers advice on such topics as coping with grief and anger after a downsizing; reorganizing life after a layoff; how to launch a job search; balancing the job search with family and personal time; explaining a layoff to family and friends; and more. This book will show downsized workers how to reorganize schedules, set financial and organizational priorities, and go for their next job with confidence and enthusiasm.

Table of Contents

Introduction

  • Chapter 1: Your Position Has Been Eliminated

  • Chapter 2 Week 1: Give Yourself Some Time

  • Chapter 3 Week 2: Lifestyles of the Temporarily Unemployed

  • Chapter 4 Week 3: There's Life After a Layoff

  • Chapter 5 Week 4-8: The Job Search

  • Chapter 6 Week 9: The Job Interview

  • Chapter 7 Week 10: You're Hired!

  • Chapter 8: Long-term Unemployment

  • Chapter 9: Do You Really Want To Go Back to the Rat Race?

Conclusion

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