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Rebounding After a Layoff Tutorial:
How to Successfully Re-Enter the Job Market After Being Fired, Downsized, or Laid Off

 

Preparing for the Layoff

 

Checklist for preparing layoffs at your place of employment

 

As you read the signs -- even if in the end they are incorrect -- it never hurts to prepare yourself for the worst in case the layoff actually does happen. Much better to prepare than to do what most of us do, which is hide deeply in denial.

 

A checklist for preparing for a layoff (with details of each on the following pages):

• Document how your position is vital to success of organization
• Contemplate career and job alternatives
• Polish job-search materials
• Ramp-up career networking
• Line up references
• Back-up all personal files from company computer
• Examine finances; prepare contingency budget
• Avoid rumors and office politics as much as possible
• Stay productive and on task
• Talk with your family

 

 

 

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