The Job Search Checklist

FOREWORD

Job loss is the great equalizer. Regardless of your age, education, income, job level, or the company that you worked for, job loss changes your life. Without warning, you are plunged into a professional identity crisis, and thrown into a roiling sea of emotion.

The ones you love the most have also been affected by your abrupt unemployment. Like you, they have not had the chance to plan, prepare, or react. Everyday family routines are suddenly invaded and viewed through the lens of: “Can we really afford this?” Unemployment takes over emotionally, financially, socially, and psychologically: All because someone is out of work.

It is one thing to talk about how to manage job loss; it is another thing altogether to have lived through it ...