Worst time of year for jobseekers

[Anonymous]

Are you getting any severance pay to carry you over the holiday?

[Anonymous]

My company does a big layoffs after the end of the year but before annual bonuses are paid, as a reminder to everyone that the company has no respect for employees and employees should put as little time and effort as possible into anything except to make the most immediate directly monitored urgent work look passable.

[Anonymous]

I hate this too. We work on yearly budgets and if your industry is at all related to government funding, this is when the stupid notices go out about non-renewal of contracts and the companies find out. In my agency, we usually cobble together enough funds to keep things going for three months after the start of the fiscal year which means the layoffs happen now. Sorry, OP.

[Anonymous]

laying people off before the holidays is such sh*tty policy. only the grossest companies do this.

[Anonymous]

I got severance which will carry me through Feb

[Anonymous]

On the plus side, there will probably be a lot of postings in early January. We don’t post anything after the first week of December because we don’t get applicants during the holiday season.

[Anonymous]

I was also in a position where my employment ended in early December. It was full time and I also had a part time job that I thought I could fall back on until the dust settles just tell to keep my main bills paid. Well unfortunately right before Christmas they informed us there will not be any work until mid January I felt crushed. I put in tons of applications on indeed. Luckily I got a job today that I interviewed for just yesterday. I'm starts early February. Here is the kicker I put in so many applications until I even found another part time job to replace my previous one, that I will start next week that is better and you get paid more frequent. So definitely try indeed and put in as many as you can. I am sure you will get called in for a few interviews and maybe an offer. Keep strong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was also in a position where my employment ended in early December. It was full time and I also had a part time job that I thought I could fall back on until the dust settles just tell to keep my main bills paid. Well unfortunately right before Christmas they informed us there will not be any work until mid January I felt crushed. I put in tons of applications on indeed. Luckily I got a job today that I interviewed for just yesterday. I'm starts early February. Here is the kicker I put in so many applications until I even found another part time job to replace my previous one, that I will start next week that is better and you get paid more frequent. So definitely try indeed and put in as many as you can. I am sure you will get called in for a few interviews and maybe an offer. Keep strong.

That’s the most positive thing I’ve read about indeed - how very strange