Cope With Job Loss
Posted in Careers on December 18th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to commentAccording the a report released recently by the World Bank, unemployment rate in Nigeria is about 15 per cent while in the United States, the rate has surged to its highest in the last 16 years with more than 2.5 million job losses in 2008 – a situation that has not been witnessed since the end of the second world war in 1945. The phenomenon of job loss in Nigeria heightens an already awful situation which had seen many formerly enterprising industries like textile, rubber and auto closing down in incredible large numbers. By this very fact, job losses are now a common feature among the citizenry.
According to experts, it is quite natural and normal for anyone to experience conventional psychological and emotional breakdown when the means of livelihood goes in a fiat. Whenever this happens, the apparent challenges must be faced squarely since the only constant thing in life is change. There is no point in losing confidence in yourself once you fall a victim but instead be up and doing by searching for the quickest opportunity even if the pay is not as good as the previous one. This is because half a loaf is better than no bread at all when, particularly, one has many mouths to feed, and then move on until when better opportunities eventually emerge.
Any affected person in job loss should brush up his or her personal finance skills for better handling to take good care of food, shelter and health. The next thing is to carefully monitor your finances and tastes for a few weeks or months and ensure that you only acquire strictly what you need and not what you want.
Furthermore, you must review your interests and conscientiously ask yourself if you can work for yourself instead of depending on a hard-to-come by job. Anyone seeking to earn income and ensure a decent life-style might equally look for employment in the non-conventional ways which include job-sharing, part-time work and temporary services even if the pay is not encouraging but can, at least, take care of the daily needs.
It is also advised that anyone suffering from job loss should network like never before since it is easier to find a job if you are acquainted with people within and outside your environments. Get in touch with friends, colleagues and contacts you had made in your previous employ and start reaching out to them in a friendly and not too desperate way. This is a matter of burying your pride and let them know you are in need of work. No matter how dark the circumstance may be, it is really possible to triumph over a job loss and end up feeling happier and healthier once the dark days are over.
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