If you have time when your company lays you off or lets you go, make sure your resume shows what you did during that time to make yourself better and more knowledgeable for when the work does come back. Take courses on new techniques within your field. Maybe take a class at a local Community College that will give you a better understanding of your career field.
Spend time talking with other companies and their management to find out what new techniques they are using that you may want to learn more about. Overall, just show that you did not just sit at home and watch shows all day. Show that you did something to contribute to your ability to help a company.
We cannot control when a company hires or lays off. And we cannot control our nation’s economy by ourselves. What can we control? We learn what we do to make ourselves better candidates and workers for our next company.
Please join me again tomorrow. We’ll look at what other actions you can take to make a company want to hire you after you get laid off or let go from your last job.
