DH just got laid off

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let your mortgage company know and see if you can temporarily stop payments

Yeah no way. You have 6 months of severance, in this job market there is no way you won’t find another job before then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of terrible advice here. When I am job hunting I do it 50 hours a week. I apply every posting, I do nationwide search plus all remote.

I post content LinkedIn once a day I connect to people every day and schedule zoom/Google video meetings with my connections 2-3 times a week.

I try for 3-9 applications a day, connect 20-40 people’s day, a few interview each week and a few google meetings each week. It is a numbers game.

I also message at least 10 linked in connections daily with a personal note and sometimes resume.

I also connect with people at companies I apply and also request mock interviews.

I grind 8am to 6pm five days a week.

You be surprised how good you can be interviewing as I have been literally on a few hundred interviews and applied to maybe 1,000 to 2,000 jobs.

I have had 5 big jobs in 5 different industries. Got to grind. Apply then all.

When I received corporate career outplacement services, the career coaches stressed the numbers game as well. I was taught to make a target list of 20-25 companies and to figure out how to make a contact/get an interview at each one. If I was interviewed by one company and it didn't work out, I was supposed to replace it with a new company.

[Anonymous]

Op-what industry is he in? Were there many lay offs in the company.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of terrible advice here. When I am job hunting I do it 50 hours a week. I apply every posting, I do nationwide search plus all remote.

I post content LinkedIn once a day I connect to people every day and schedule zoom/Google video meetings with my connections 2-3 times a week.

I try for 3-9 applications a day, connect 20-40 people’s day, a few interview each week and a few google meetings each week. It is a numbers game.

I also message at least 10 linked in connections daily with a personal note and sometimes resume.

I also connect with people at companies I apply and also request mock interviews.

I grind 8am to 6pm five days a week.

You be surprised how good you can be interviewing as I have been literally on a few hundred interviews and applied to maybe 1,000 to 2,000 jobs.

I have had 5 big jobs in 5 different industries. Got to grind. Apply then all.

That’s a furious amount of activity. I suppose the machine gun approach works if you are early to mid level where there are thousands of possible job roles you can move into. You have to realize though that as someone advances in their career, and they begin to hold senior jobs where there is literally only one in every Fortune 500 company, think Chief Compliance Officer, or VP of Manufacturing, the approach for executive job hunting is completely different from what you describe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of terrible advice here. When I am job hunting I do it 50 hours a week. I apply every posting, I do nationwide search plus all remote.

I post content LinkedIn once a day I connect to people every day and schedule zoom/Google video meetings with my connections 2-3 times a week.

I try for 3-9 applications a day, connect 20-40 people’s day, a few interview each week and a few google meetings each week. It is a numbers game.

I also message at least 10 linked in connections daily with a personal note and sometimes resume.

I also connect with people at companies I apply and also request mock interviews.

I grind 8am to 6pm five days a week.

You be surprised how good you can be interviewing as I have been literally on a few hundred interviews and applied to maybe 1,000 to 2,000 jobs.

I have had 5 big jobs in 5 different industries. Got to grind. Apply then all.

That’s a furious amount of activity. I suppose the machine gun approach works if you are early to mid level where there are thousands of possible job roles you can move into. You have to realize though that as someone advances in their career, and they begin to hold senior jobs where there is literally only one in every Fortune 500 company, think Chief Compliance Officer, or VP of Manufacturing, the approach for executive job hunting is completely different from what you describe.

Also not true. I am VP/Chief level but will do first or deputy roles (if large company) I did thousands of applications during my career not one job hunt.

But this last one I did around 1,000. Non profits, regulators. Start ups, foreign companies. And open relocation and international companies. I landed pretty quick a job consulting for a new CEO at a small company at $200 an hour in Europe remotely. A UK person I met on line referred referred me to this Belgium guy. Then a UK man at another company liked me and connected me to a San Fran man I got a job start up. It is a spiderweb on LinkedIn

[Anonymous]

Don’t automatically do COBRA. The Obamacare policies are often more affordable. You can also activate COBRA retroactively if you have a health emergency, but don’t necessarily need to pay for it if you don’t. Look up the specifics.