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Go-to Guide For What to do Post-Layoff, For Your Situation
- Action Items [Seconds] After Getting Laid Off
- Age-defying Secrets for Getting Laid Off ≧ 50
- Definitive Options After a Layoff While on H-1B
- Mid Life Career Change v. Wandering Lost and Uninspired
- Niche Career Layoff? Job Searching w/Noncompete Agreements
- Action Items [Seconds] After Getting Laid Off
You’re flustered, your emotions are coursing and your tight-lipped to dam in your anger and trembling jaw. Here’s resources detailing how to handle being suddenly laid off and what to do before you leave the building one last time.
- Age-defying Secrets for Getting Laid Off ≧ 50
Time to spill some tea! This is the younger crowd’s code for sharing juicy details. According to NBCs Answer Desk Blog: “… Social Security benefits are based on your total earnings history. For example, a baby boomer born in 1950 now earning $65,000 a year can expect a monthly check of $1,756 a month in 2016. But if that person lost their job in 2006 — and didn’t earn another penny — they’d still be entitled to $1,746 a month in 2016 — a loss of just $10 in monthly benefits.
To estimate your benefits, check out the Social Security Web site.”
The following websites provide some other need-to-know career life-saving details when you’re laid off from work.
- Definitive Options After a Layoff While on H-1B
Are you a part of the 85,000? When your pursuit of the American dream is cut short by a layoff, then the gut-wrenching imminent notice to leave the U.S.A., what choices do you have? What are your current rights in being laid off?
You may be an educated professional who worked hard to come here and while citizens work the system to milk Unemployment pay, you’d give your right arm to get another job to make a better life for yourself. Here’s some valuable links to help de-escalate the alarm, find support and get answers you need.
4. Mid Life Career Change v. Wandering Lost and Uninspired
A layoff without notice or a mounting frustration with the rat race has caused you to step out from the umbrella of a steady check and benefits into what you were hoping was the downpour of fresh opportunity out there. What was supposed to be a few months of transition has tethered to feelings of being lost and failure — and now it’s been embarrassingly too long since you’ve had clear direction or promising opportunity. The one thing you do know is you’re not ready for retirement. Below are tips, tools & hacks to get you from “What do I do?” to “This is how I did it!”
5. Niche career layoff? Job Searching w/Noncompete Agreements
Amid the confusion of a layoff, questions about your signed noncompete agreement are likely swimming in your head: Is the non-compete still valid? Can it be enforced in a layoff? Can I be excused legally for violating a noncompete if I was laid off?
“What should you do if you want to stay in the same field? To some extent, it depends on your reason for leaving. If you’re leaving for a better job opportunity with a competitor, it’s less likely that an employer will release you from a noncompete. If you’re being downsized or laid off, talk with your boss about being released from the agreement. Since you’re not choosing to leave on your own, an employer might be more willing to give you the freedom to leave without restricting your ability to find another job. But the employer could still hold to the agreement’s terms.”
More on this subject from the link directly below, plus a several more giving insider tips to consider before and after signing an employer/employee exclusive agreement:
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