How to react to redundancy and a period of enforced inactivity?
11 November 2013
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Let’s be honest, it’s over and done with, you no longer spend your professional life in the same company. You don’t even spend twenty years there anymore! Today, we move, we change jobs, sectors, cities, careers, we develop our skills, we train. In short, we are in perpetual motion…
And sometimes, we are made redundant. For a thousand reasons that do not necessarily depend on our skills, aptitudes, qualities or shortcomings…
Finding a job after a period of inactivity is difficult. And the longer the period, the greater the difficulty. It requires great mental strength, requires being psychologically serene, as the average time to find a job is around a year…!
It is essential, to serenely get through such a period, to transpose the negative into the positive and to use what you have gained from this “trial” as additional psychological assets. An overcome and assumed job loss, well experienced, ultimately allows you to develop qualities that are perfectly essential in the world of work: a greater mental ability to bounce back, better stress management, a profound capacity for self-organization, a spirit of synthesis and decision-making…
So think about noting this non-negligible potential on a sheet of paper and keeping in mind everything that this period has brought you that is positive, even essential to your professional development.
During your next recruitment interview, don’t hide this period of forced inactivity from the recruiter. Everything eventually comes out. So turn things around and talk about it as a time when you treated yourself to a few luxuries: meetings with professionals, discovering one or more new sectors, etc. In short, a formative period in various ways. Don’t hesitate to present all your actions of this kind (training, volunteering, etc.) insofar as they highlight the aforementioned personal skills that are increasingly in demand by recruiters.
Since, despite yourself, you have “free” time, use it usefully: take stock of your skills, determine your career objectives, review your professional career with a clear head and question your choices, take stock of your strengths and weaknesses, ask yourself what you want to see emerge from this constrained period and what you never want to relive in terms of your profession, find out about the evolution of the companies you are targeting, regularly remind recruiters and your professional environment of your existence, dare to question the interest of a new sector, a new professional life elsewhere than in your city… Be and remain active, energetic and confident!
The ReKrute.com Team
And sometimes, we are made redundant. For a thousand reasons that do not necessarily depend on our skills, aptitudes, qualities or shortcomings…
Finding a job after a period of inactivity is difficult. And the longer the period, the greater the difficulty. It requires great mental strength, requires being psychologically serene, as the average time to find a job is around a year…!
It is essential, to serenely get through such a period, to transpose the negative into the positive and to use what you have gained from this “trial” as additional psychological assets. An overcome and assumed job loss, well experienced, ultimately allows you to develop qualities that are perfectly essential in the world of work: a greater mental ability to bounce back, better stress management, a profound capacity for self-organization, a spirit of synthesis and decision-making…
So think about noting this non-negligible potential on a sheet of paper and keeping in mind everything that this period has brought you that is positive, even essential to your professional development.
During your next recruitment interview, don’t hide this period of forced inactivity from the recruiter. Everything eventually comes out. So turn things around and talk about it as a time when you treated yourself to a few luxuries: meetings with professionals, discovering one or more new sectors, etc. In short, a formative period in various ways. Don’t hesitate to present all your actions of this kind (training, volunteering, etc.) insofar as they highlight the aforementioned personal skills that are increasingly in demand by recruiters.
Since, despite yourself, you have “free” time, use it usefully: take stock of your skills, determine your career objectives, review your professional career with a clear head and question your choices, take stock of your strengths and weaknesses, ask yourself what you want to see emerge from this constrained period and what you never want to relive in terms of your profession, find out about the evolution of the companies you are targeting, regularly remind recruiters and your professional environment of your existence, dare to question the interest of a new sector, a new professional life elsewhere than in your city… Be and remain active, energetic and confident!
The ReKrute.com Team
