For those of you who've lost a job between 2010-2013
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Anonymous
| How long did it take you to find another one? I'm going on 6 months after getting laid off and it feels like I'll never get another job, ugh! |
Anonymous
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DH took about 3 months but he has a PhD in a highly marketable field. We did have to relocate to his new job site. It took me about a year to find a job in the same area.
If you are able move for work I would strongly encourage you to really expand the geography of your search. |
Anonymous
| Op, what is your field and what tactics are you using in your job search? Perhaps we can suggest other avenues to help you. |
Anonymous
| 4 weeks in 2010, but I took a tremendous paycut. |
Anonymous
| 6 months in 2010 and I took a 10% pay cut. In the end, I only found my current job through a personal (not even a professional) referral. This was someone I knew from a social activity who had a job that I qualified for. All of the jobs that I had applied for without the networking tie were a bust. |
Anonymous
Public Health, I've tried networking with former coworkers, I use LinkedIn, indeed, Washington Post, Craigslist, USA jobs, and even company websites. I've even applied for jobs outside of my field, but was turned down for lack of experience. |
Anonymous
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18 months, 10% pay cut, new job is not where my career should be headed but the ONLY one I could find.
Best of luck to you. Stay confident that you will rebound. |
Anonymous
| Check out Idealist if you are in public health. I believe I saw some recent postings in health fields. |
Anonymous
Thanks, I'll check it out! |
Anonymous
Have you used Public Health Employment Connection by Emory University, and publichealthjobs.net which is run by ASPH? There's also the APHA "CareerMart" but I have rarely found anything on there. PHEC however is a great site, I have found a couple of my previous positions from there. What "industry" (or maybe you're looking in all), like research, health departments/govt, consulting, non-profit? Also what concentration of public health is your experience in, if any, like health science, health policy, health systems, population/community health, epidemiology? |
Anonymous
| For now, I'm looking in all industries, but I would prefer a health department. My experience is in population health and epidemiology. I have tried APHA with no luck, but I will look into PHEC. |
Anonymous
| dchr.dc.gov had some postings for the DC DOH recently. Definitely check out Idealist as well. |
Anonymous
| I've been underemployed for 5 years now OP and am 57 years old. I've applied to tons of jobs and am just not getting anything else. Good luck! I hope you find something good. |
Anonymous
11:56 here - would you also be willing to share how many years of experience you have? Any particular skills (research methods, SAS/STATA/R etc, grant writing)? I have worked in a couple health departments in my time and believe that's where my heart is as well. I am currently in the private sector and looking to possibly get out, but I must say that it will be tough to get into certain LHDs because of the extreme constraints on budgets. I often see many postings for the VA State Dept of Health in Richmond (not sure if you're willing to relocate) and I'm not sure if that's a good or bad sign. PHEC is an absolute must for any public health job seeker, check it out ASAP. I also like to go directly to the county health dept's website (e.g., Arlington, Montgomery, Fairfax - depending where you wish to work and where you live) and see what they have listed there. |