i've been laid off, what's next?
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Applying for unemployment. Do not be ashamed to do this.
Find out if you are eligible for cobra. Thanks oh may find that Obamacare is a better deal. Friends in where you live. In some places Obamacare is great (dc and MoCo have good blue cross ppo options). In other states or counties not so great. |
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| When applying for new jobs, do I have to do cover letters? It’s been a long time since I’ve looked for a job. |
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| Like others have said, tell everyone, not just your closest contacts. You'll find that some people who you haven't kept in touch with will do a lot to help you. |
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You can but I’m a recruiter and I never read them. If you do, make them short. Good luck! |
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| Network. Especially with anyone you’ve ever worked with. I was laid off in January and got good leads from former co-workers. Ultimately I saw a job posted on LinkedIn, noticed the head of HR was someone I worked with 20 years ago. I reached out to them, interviewed and got the job. Get on LinkedIn and network hard. Good luck! |
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Capital One hired a bunch of Amazon execs and instituted a ranking program forcing managers to rate their employees - they had to rate at least 2 below standard. Those people were then given a choice - go on an improvement program with impossible standards and at the end, get axed with nothing if you don’t improve, or leave now with severance, etc, and in order to get that, sign a “I won’t sue” disclosure. And if you speak up as a manager in defense of your staff? You’re next on the chopping block. Capital One didn’t want the stink of layoffs on them like Amazon had, so they are forcing employees into a Hunger Games situation. I know someone who left on his/her own due to this because morally, they could not cope with these disgusting practices. It hurts to be laid off but my suspicion is you will be not only better off, but a better person as a result. |
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a bad or neutral cover letter typically can hurt more than even an excellent cover letter helps, so in the default so not do one. if there is a job you Really Really want, but feel your resume doesn't explain why you think you would be excellent for the role-- first, edit your resume. if you still feel like an explanation is needed, a short and to the point cover letter can be a good option. a cover letter is always crafted for one specific opening. ideally, each resume submission is massaged for each position but that can get grueling. i did two creative writing exercises for my resume-- first, try to take it down to one page. yeah, i know nearly impossible if you have decades of experience. do it anyway. it will force you to distill the essence of each job down to a sentence or two at most. then, create a giant, no holds barred resume with everything from every job. if you see a job posting and go "yeah, i know its funny but i actually learned a lot about working under pressure as well as machine maintenance during that ice cream shop job in 1992", PUT IT DOWN on the giant resume. you don't submit this resume, but it should contain the building blocks of every resume you ever do submit. a rough estimate is that your (private industry) resume should expand by a page per decade. this may vary by industry a bit, but if you're over three pages and you aren't a gen x you probably need to cut it down a bit. rules for gov jobs are different. you need to make sure you have recorded full-time experience even if it's not in the same industry, because feds don't do age discrimination like tech does and the pay matrix math in the FIRREA agencies is based on years of experience, and if its not on the resume you submitted it does not count. good luck. it sucks. it can take a long time to shake off the sting but a layoff is not actually a condemnation of you or your capabilities or your value as an employee. it's just bad luck and bad timing, and you should not cling to it. take the holiday week to breathe and regroup, if you need, and then attack the job search like it's your new job. |
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| Op were you better off? My brother was laid off in March and is STILL looking. In tech sales so crazy slow. |
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Wow. I know some investment firms that are like this with portfolio managers. But they make bank and are aware of the deal. I hope this is for very high earners. I always here crazy shit about capital one and none of it is ever good. |
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I thought the dead end PIP vs voluntary severance was pretty standard. Is it done piecemeal to not seem like layoffs? |
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Yes, and it seems silly, but set your Linkedin to "Open to Work." For example, I am looking to hire for a role in my tech company, but the job isn't advertised publicly yet. If I see one of my contacts fits the description and is open to work, I will reach out directly. |
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what's your problem? go away! |
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| My job lied and said they were laying off everyone and had meetings about it but then ended up laying off a few and retaining some including some who were incredibly lazy and had put off work the majority of time they were there. Their hypocrisy is amazing. I'm still upset that they were given preference over me. We were all long term employees. Even the most unprofessional racist and sexist supervisors were given preference. |
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Ah, she’s a local. Wondered why the viral marketing here. She paints herself as coming from middle class immigrant family, yet went to the 10th best high school in MD (Marriotts Ridge, Howard county, natch) and grew up in a 3500 sq ft $1M house. I guess that’s DCUM middle class, but fake marketing. I guess no worse than “ex-Traderl after only 2 years on Wall Street. |