Contraction is the greatest stress for everyone. Like a natural disaster, it loses only to the divorce and death of people close to us, but this does not mean at all that this situation occurs suddenly. Quite the opposite: it can be foreseen in advance and psychologically prepared.
How to behave:
• Maintain control over yourself and the situation, soberly assess the rumors and actions of the management.
• Concentrate on work and your resources.
• Talk to the management, find out the real state of affairs. Perhaps there are criteria according to which the reduction will occur.
• Take a closer look at your professional skills and abilities. The work for the show will not work, it is better to concentrate on the work and carry it out competently and on time established by the management and regulations.
• Think about how you can help the company in the current situation.
• Comply with all assigned objectives in order to demonstrate reliability and an example of confidence to others.
• Have work-related plans. Share the results.
What not to do:
• Give in to general panic and tension.
• Get discouraged, in which the profitability of the work decreases.
• Swearing with colleagues (negative information exacerbates old grievances and competition).
• Thoughtlessly start looking for a job or quit urgently.
What to do if a contraction has occurred:
• It is necessary to get together, no matter how difficult it may be to part in kind.
• Put things in order and hand them over to the receiver.
• On the last day to say goodbye warmly to the team and the boss, ask the head for recommendations.
• Start looking for work directly on the day of dismissal, having decided on the requirements that you set for a new job - career, position, salary, remoteness.
• Tell family and friends about the layoff for support.
• Maintain the previous regime of the day. Do something every day to find a job: browsing websites, making calls, sending resumes, interviews.
• Weighfully assess your own skills, remind yourself of your strengths.
• Do household chores. Get involved in family life, communicate, solve household problems.
• Do not withdraw into yourself. Make a visit. Because there you can meet the right person who may help with the work.
It is important to understand
Oftentimes, getting laid off gives a person a great boost to their career. The end of something familiar means the acceptance of new opportunities, which in the usual work bustle there was nothing to think about and there was no time. Job stability does not always mean career growth. Maybe you should consider this situation as a chance to change your life, which so rarely comes?
