Advice: What to do before being laid-off

Over the years, I’ve seen my share of layoffs. I’ve seen co-workers get escorted off the premises, and I’ve seen people given a 2 weeks notice. Either way, it always comes as a shock. Most people I know NEED their paychecks. And when that is cut-off, people react in a bunch of different ways.

You get a few people that are just absolutely stunned, they believe that they don’t deserve to be laid off, and that there are others that were somehow more deserving of a termination. There are others that look at it as “heck, I was unhappy anyway… good riddance.” And then there are even others that look at it like its an opportunity to make a change in their lives.

I originally started this series of posts thinking about how you can prepare yourself for a layoff. But what I ended up writing about was a more of a set of tips for dealing with the entire layoff process, from preparing yourself before the layoff to dealing with things after the layoff.

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