Surviving a Layoff
Surviving a Layoff

Author: Lita Epstein

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-12-17

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1440501750

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Being laid off is a traumatic event. Downsized workers must face decisions about reorganizing their lives and their finances, while grappling with the emotional grief of losing a job. This book is a practical guide to dealing with the tough questions a layoff poses. Using a week-to-week timeline, the book offers advice on such topics as: coping with grief and anger after a downsizing; reorganizing life after a layoff; how to launch a job search; balancing the job search with family and personal time; explaining a layoff to family and friends; and more. This book will show downsized workers how to reorganize schedules, set financial and organizational priorities, and go for their next job with confidence and enthusiasm.

Keeping Your Head After Losing Your Job
Keeping Your Head After Losing Your Job

Author: Robert Leahy

Publisher: Behler Publications, LLC

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1933016620

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A self-help book to help the unemployed and their families cope more effectively during a time when they feel helpless.

Surviving Unemployment: Staying Centered While Your World Turns Upside Down
Surviving Unemployment: Staying Centered While Your World Turns Upside Down

Author: Valerie Pederson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-05

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 141163375X

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Surviving Unemployment will help you at every turn of your unemployment experience. The book begins by helping you recover from your initial job loss trauma, then it moves onto inspiring your day to day activities, including finding and getting a job. Finally it provides relaxations and affirmations that are specifically written for the job hunter. When you are unemployed it is not only your task to get a new job, but it is also your task to be content and confident during the time you are unemployed. This book is about not feeling alone and dreading the extra time that you are suddenly given, it is about feeling your best when you go on job interviews despite the fact that you really want the job and your inner negative voice is saying you're not qualified. In other words it is about living life mindfully, while you wait for your work life to start again.

Healing the Wounds
Healing the Wounds

Author: David M. Noer

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons

Published: 2009-07-28

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0470528591

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From the founder of "layoff survivor sickness" an updated edition of a book for today's downsized workforce Thoroughly revised and updated, David Noer's classic book about downsized organizations has never been more relevant. Reports of the most recent layoffs are making the front pages of our newspapers with frightening regularity. And massive downsizing continues to reshape the face of American business. But what about those who remain behind? Healing the Wounds provides an antidote to the widespread malaise on the American business scene left in the wake of workforce reductions. Drawing on case studies and original research, David M. Noer-an expert frequently quoted in major media such as The Wall Street Journal and Fortune on the topic of layoffs and layoff survivor sickness-provides executives, human resource professionals, managers, and consultants with an original model and clear guidelines for revitalizing downsized organizations and the employees left behind. Offers thoroughly revised edition of a book about layoffs and those who are left behind Filled with relevant case studies and recent research Written by David Noer an acclaimed expert on the topic Gives employers much-needed guidance for revitalizing downsized companies

Mr. and Mrs. Smith's Employment Survival Guide (Business Edition)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith's Employment Survival Guide (Business Edition)

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Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-03

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1449064221

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In an economy where unemployment rates are at an all-time high, advice on how to survive in the working world can be extremely valuable. In their new book, Mr. and Mrs. Smith's Employment Survival Guide (Business Edition), co-authors Odie and Daval Smith offer readers practical insight into how to effectively navigate unemployment and how to better develop an existing career. Their book includes a broad spectrum of career-related advice, including tips on leaving your current job if necessary, how to get through unemployment with enriching activities, job-search tips, resume-building advice, unemployment benefits and information, essential skills to build or improve upon and interviewing pointers. With 18 years of experience with both the employment highs and unemployment lows, the Smiths impart their knowledge and professional guidance, assisting every reader in positioning themselves toward effective employment.

The No Asshole Rule
The No Asshole Rule

Author: Robert I. Sutton

Publisher: Business Plus

Published: 2007-02-22

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0759518017

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The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work. "What an asshole!" How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to deal with assholes...and why they can be so destructive to your company. Practical, compassionate, and in places downright funny, this guide offers: Strategies on how to pinpoint and eliminate negative influences for good Illuminating case histories from major organizations A self-diagnostic test and a program to identify and keep your own "inner jerk" from coming out The No Asshole Rule is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week bestseller.

Downsizing
Downsizing

Author: Cary L. Cooper

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1107004675

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Downsizing is one of the most frequently used business strategies for reducing costs, returning firms to profit or for restructuring businesses following takeovers, mergers and acquisitions. Downsizing measures are also set to become much more prevalent in the public sector as governments seek to restrict levels of public spending. This book is one of the first to provide a thorough study of downsizing from a global perspective. It examines the phenomenon in its entirety, exploring how it is initiated and what the process of downsizing looks like. It also looks at the effects of downsizing at a number of different levels, from the individual (e.g., motivational effects, effects on health and stress levels) to the organizational (e.g., financial outcomes, reputational and productivity outcomes). Written by an international team of experts, the book provides a comprehensive overview of downsizing that examines both the strategic and human implications of this process.

When Corporate Sh*T Happens
When Corporate Sh*T Happens

Author: Andrew L Oliver

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1532064063

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In today’s challenging job market, no single set of rules can be followed to ensure you won’t lose your job because of a merger, a layoff, outsourcing, or automation. You can, however, use certain skills to reduce the odds of becoming unemployed. In When Corporate Sh*t Happens, Andrew L. Oliver provides you with career advice to guide you through each phase of your career, whether you are just starting out, trying to climb the ladder to success, or fighting age discrimination as an older person in the workplace. This guide offers self-assessment tools for identifying your ideal job and gives strategies for • succeeding in your job, • monitoring the company’s health, • surviving when the company plans to downsize, • finding a new job in less time with less financial and personal stress, • surviving a merger, • surviving a layoff, • surviving unemployment, and • bulletproofing your career. Using Oliver’s personal and professional experience as a backdrop, When Corporate Sh*t Happen takes you step-by-step through your career, providing the advice and tips you need to be successful in good times and bad.

The Engineer's Career Guide
The Engineer's Career Guide

Author: John A. Hoschette

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-05-25

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 0470530162

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This is the most complete career resource guide book for engineers dealing with the non-technical side of engineering. It provides career advice for engineers at all stages of their careers, whether newly graduated, mid-career, or soon-to-be-retired. This book provides many real world, practical, proven, common sense career tips supported by actual work and experiences/examples. Tips deal with problems the engineer may encounter with supervisors, co-workers and others in the corporation. The book provides step-by-step guidance on how to deal with career problems and come out ahead.