"It is a really tough time to be mentoring, with massive layoffs and tens of thousands of professionals losing their rice bowls every other fortnight. 'How am I going to feed my family? How am I going to pay my mortgage?' 'You'll land something soon. Keep going!', echoes the thoughts and well-wishes of those who didn't get laid off. Defeated but trudging along, those laid-off set out to have 6-month plans to get employment."
"Please don't tell anyone to focus on the job-hunt if you care about them. Send them this article instead. Press enter or click to view image in full size Credit: Nicholas Kusuma The world is full of goodwill, good intentions, and naive thoughts mixed in-between. It is a really tough time to be mentoring, with massive layoffs and tens of thousands of professionals losing their rice bowls every other fortnight."
Massive layoffs have left tens of thousands of professionals suddenly unemployed and anxious about basic needs such as feeding families and paying mortgages. Well-intentioned reassurances like 'You'll land something soon' often push laid-off people into long job-search plans that stretch beyond six months into years. Hoping to return to a previous role is presented as the biggest mistake after a layoff. The hiring market is described as unlikely to recover to previous norms. Companies repeatedly cycle through existing talent networks and hire the same types of professionals, producing a repetitive hiring pattern rather than broad new opportunities.
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