"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 unemployed and struggling with urgent needs like food and mortgage payments. Well-intentioned encouragement often offers reassurance that does not match hiring realities. Many laid-off professionals plan six-month job searches that stretch into a year or more without success. Hoping to return to previous employment paths is identified as the biggest post-layoff mistake. The market is described as unlikely to recover to former conditions. Companies repeatedly cycle through existing talent networks, hiring similar profiles and repeating the same limited hiring patterns.
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