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[quote=Anonymous]One question that employers may be wondering when they assess your application is, why didn't you look for jobs after your layoff several years ago? How long ago were you laid off? You mentioned "pre-pandemic" but what does that mean, was it 4 years ago, 5, 10??

Project Management has evolved quite a bit over the past 10 years. Your skill set is likely being seen as stale, and especially so if you haven't bothered to pick up any contract or consulting gigs in the past several years. This means you haven't kept up with current industry trends and all the many new PM tools and technology out there, or methodologies. It also doesn't help that the background you do have was at a legacy tech company, bc that means your scope of experience is very limited to only what that 1 company had going on.

Explain to us why an employer should hire you to be their PM. If you can do that, that will help you articulate your value during future interviews.

I also think you should focus your job search on applications with contracting and consulting firms, then use that to leverage a full time role later. I can't imagine any company being willing to take a risk offering a FT role to someone who hasn't worked at all in at least 4-5 years+.[/quote]

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