Making Yourself a Better Job Candidate 

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. 

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Author: Mike Balof

A retired Air Force Master Sergeant, Mike used to lay in bed at night and worry about what would happen if his plant closed or found himself without a job. One day his plant closed. Rather than panic and hysteria (OK, maybe a little) Mike found himself carried away on the adventure of his life. Mike started with the best job he ever had working at Home Depot. He spent 8 years working with job seekers at a local workforce center, helping them to find employment. He then started his own company developing courses, writing books and urging others to follow their own paths into the future. Mike holds a Master of Arts in Adult Education and Training and a Bachelor of Business Management, earned through the University of Phoenix and an AAS degree in Electronics Systems Technology from the Community College of the Air Force. Mike is a member of the Delta Mu Delta Business Honor Society.

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