Layoff professionals - Expand your Horizon

Layoff is not the end of the carrier but it’s the stage from where we need to start again. This time more intelligently:

Expand your Horizon: Be open for different positions and related industries, if you are too tied to a specific positions or field, you may pigeonhole yourself.  Sharpen your axe – (think and work on your skill sets) and how they could be useful in getting job in other industries.

Let me give an example, if you are working in a telecom industry and worked as a full time engineer or manager or a contractor and you have been laid off because of multiple factors such as – organization low business volumes, restructuring, technological progress, mergers or buyouts or even due to low performance.

Continue searching for jobs in the telecom sector based on your current skill set, but also look around and check out what other skill sets are in demand, not only in telecom sector but may be in IT sector as well for e.g. big data analytic, cloud computing etc. you can plan and enroll for some short duration professional courses which can equip you with additional skill set, which helps you find more & better job opportunities to apply for.

Position yourself, to come out as a winner.

Choose right platforms for your next job search: There are many job portals/job search platforms, where you can apply for jobs on day on day basis and maybe a hidden gem of a job would be found somewhere obscure. 

I would say, though you can’t control the industry – how it behaves – you can control your actions after a layoff and how you approach the job search. Position yourself, to come out of the professional carrier downturn as a winner.