"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. The biggest mistake most people make after getting laid off is hoping you'll get a job again. The market is not going to recover Something I've noticed within hiring networks in the industry is that companies are basically cycling through their talent networks on cues. The same type of professional is getting hired, the same cycle of..."
Massive layoffs have left many professionals scrambling to meet basic financial needs as common reassurances to keep searching fail to address structural changes. Six-month job-search plans frequently stretch into years because market demand has shifted. Hoping to regain prior employment overlooks cyclical hiring behavior where companies repeatedly draw from familiar talent networks and hire similar profiles. Stable recovery in hiring is unlikely for many affected roles. Practical responses require acknowledging that passive job-hunting and optimism alone are insufficient, and affected individuals must pursue alternative strategies, financial planning, reskilling, and network diversification to adapt to the new hiring reality.
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