Jul 24, 2008 7:00 pm US/Eastern
Philadelphia Career Coach's Survival Guide
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ―
You're fired, two words nobody wants to hear or ever
expects. When you're out of work, it always seems like everyone has a place to go and get a paycheck, except for you.
"First of all, don't panic
because if you've had a job, you'll have another," says Dyan Doughty
Kelly, a career coach
Dyan has seen it all, including knee jerk phone calls of
hopefuls desperately pleading for jobs.
"You need a strategy around a job search. You don't
want to launch into 'okay I lost my job and now I'm going go out and bang on all
the bushes,'" the coach warns.
Though when times are tough economically, it's
hard not to get desperate.
Rachel Yard is having an especially difficult time
watching her father, 52, deal with his lost feelings after being downsized out
of a large company.
"You think you're going to retire with them and then all of
a sudden, it's pulled out from under you," said Yard. "You're kind of
left looking around like what happened to my life."
Coach Dyan says that a mid-life layoff doesn't exactly have
to destroy a career. Just follow her steps for recovery and it is possible to
thrive.
The first thing to do is update your resume and work on
networking face to face, something Dyan says is critical.
"What are your skills, not the task you
preformed," says Dyan.
The coach also recommends three key resources offered today,
online job boards like Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com, professional
associations or job fairs are also essential in networking.
The last and possibly the most important advice the job
coach offers is that you should always keep a good attitude.
"If you act like a winner, you will be one."
RELATED LINKS:www.monster.comwww.careerbuilder.comwww.linkedin.comwww.ladders.com
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