At some point you will probably need a resume. Writing a resume is a time consuming and painful exercise, however help is available. I’ve linked to a couple of places that offer advice/templates here and here. I’m also developing my own template (which includes comments on why the different components are included), which can be found here.
You need more clarity. If you have just been retrenched you are probably thinking that you need more money. A friend of mine used to walk around saying to himself “I need more clarity”, now you need it to.
And you need it for three reasons:
You may have some negative emotions concerning THEM:
“Don’t they know who I am? They can’t do this to me”
“They are going to regret this, I’ll show them”
You may also be deluded:
“They are going to call back when they realize how much they need me”
You need to get this sorted.
Bay’s Talk will help you gain a Christian perspective; let me offer something more secular.
Since my last post I have been retrenched – a victim of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC); my continued employment was deemed ‘unsustainable in the current economic climate’. This means that I have had a whole lot more time to write, but to start with at least, felt a whole lot less like writing.
Now though, it is time to start trying to be useful again. By the providence of God I have been through retrenchment before, I have worked in the recruitment industry and I have received some excellent help from some outplacement consultants. I thought then I would offer a few thoughts about responding to retrenchment and unemployment.
In my previous post I suggested that being a man is about taking responsibility, and that this responsibility has a two-fold dimension: responsibility for a task; and responsibility for people. Today I want to suggest that taking responsibility in turn has its own two-fold shape, summed up by two great moments in Scripture
