Surviving a Layoff: A Week-by-Week Guide to Getting Your Life Back Together - Softcover

Epstein, MBA Lita

 
9781605500966: Surviving a Layoff: A Week-by-Week Guide to Getting Your Life Back Together

Synopsis

Being laid off is a traumatic event. Downsized workers must face decisions about reorganizing their lives and their finances, while grappling with the emotional grief of losing a job. This book is a practical guide to dealing with the tough questions a layoff poses. Using a week-to-week timeline, the book offers advice on such topics as: coping with grief and anger after a downsizing; reorganizing life after a layoff; how to launch a job search; balancing the job search with family and personal time; explaining a layoff to family and friends; and more. This book will show downsized workers how to reorganize schedules, set financial and organizational priorities, and go for their next job with confidence and enthusiasm.

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About the Author

Peter Archer is Associate Business Editor at Adams Media. He has been laid off three times and learned how to cope after undergoing the painful experience of a long bout of unemployment.

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