Loss of work is always a powerful stress. Of course, if you retired yourself – this is one thing. But what if after all, your employer was the initiator of the dismissal?
I generally advise to do nothing the first few days. It is necessary to calm down, collect your thoughts and think about a plan of action. But when you calm down, you need to start drawing up a plan of action.
Sit down, take a sheet of paper and write the following two main sections on it: money and work. You may set more categories. The main thing is to understand the principle. Then begin to fill in the relevant sections.
In the plan’s drawing up, please note that you can use the time of involuntary unemployment for the benefit of yourself. You can finally go on courses you have wanted to study in for a long time. Raise your skills in specialized seminars, trainings, which take place at this time.
This is a good opportunity to obtain additional education and improve your chances of employment, as many people do not have such possibility during the time they have to go for work. Some do not have enough free time, others have such an idea come to mind only when they are dismissed, or when they are going to change its scope of activities.
It is always possible to use the employment funds as a payer for such courses. However, this related mostly to people who can not settle on a specialty and acquiring new skills for future employment. Perhaps, fund will be able employ you after the graduation.
And now we come closer to the sections of our plan. So …
1. Analyze your financial situation. We take into account the ability to borrow money from your friends and acquaintances, relatives. By simple calculations you determine how long can safely look for work, not particularly caring about the means of subsistence.
I advise you to take care of such an insurance reserve in advance. Having estimated in advance, how long time you can spend to find new jobs and, having added few months as an additional precaution, we determine how much money you need to live this time monthly, not straining too much. Multiply this figure on the time required and obtain the desired amount.
You need to defer this amount in order to have a stockpile of money in case of job loss. It is better to put by up to 10% of your earnings. That’s not particularly expensive. But it should be done every month.
Having realized that hunger would not kill you in the near future, proceed to the second item.
2. Job search. Phone all the friends, acquaintances, work colleagues and define, whether they know anything about the vacancies.
Draw up a list of employers who may have these jobs, or simply who you would like to work with. Make calls then.
Then, we publish mini-resumes in the newspapers and in the Internet.
Review the specialized newspapers, magazines, websites that publish vacancy announcements.
Remember that the job search is also job. So you need to do this at least 4-6 hours a day.
In addition to the above, it is necessary to take into account several other factors affecting the efficiency of job search will speak about later.
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