#job-transitions

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fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Microsoft laid her off. A layoff support group helped her bounce back - and she got a job at Meta 2 months later.

In May, after 14 years at Microsoft, Deborah Hendersen began to sense her time at the tech giant might be running out. Several colleagues on partner teams were among the roughly 6,000 employees laid off that month. The news made Hendersen, a user researcher in the company's Xbox division, worry that her group would be next. She said it eventually became the "worst-kept secret" that additional layoffs were coming, and that her team was likely to be affected.
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US politics
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Federal workers who took Trump's buyout get final paychecks and an uncertain future

More than 150,000 federal workers accepted a Trump administration buyout, resigning with pay and benefits while facing uncertain job prospects and mixed personal impacts.
Women in technology
fromBusiness Insider
6 months ago

She changed roles at least a dozen times at Cisco. This is her advice to people considering a career transition.

Networking is crucial for successful job transitions.
Careers are non-linear and unpredictable, especially in the context of AI.
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