"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. 6-months became a year, and before long, a year nearly becomes two."
"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 tens of thousands of professionals without steady work, creating acute financial stress and challenging mentoring relationships. Well-meaning advice often urges immediate job-hunting, but many laid-off workers set six-month plans that extend into years as hiring fails to materialize. Hoping to return to previous employment patterns is a common and costly mistake. Hiring markets are not recovering uniformly; companies cycle through familiar talent networks and repeatedly hire the same types of professionals. Returning to prior roles cannot be assumed; alternative strategies and realistic assessments of market cycles are necessary for long-term recovery.
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