brett
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Keep you skills up to date. Maintain a positive attitude. Avoid associating with peers who are the usual complainers.
Keep you interview skills up. Apply for positions outside the company...to practice those skills, to determine what experience/knowledge is marketable, etc.
Maintain up your industry contacts and/or develop more.
Once you are past your early 50's be prepared for that tap on the back. Get your financials in order, understand your rights, your pension scheme etc.
Maintain a record of your personnel correspondence, you job performance reviews etc, at home. Assume that if and when you get that tap on the shoulder all of your company IT access will be cancelled. Do not sign anything ...such as a release!
I aslo got recommendations for good employment lawyers from colleagues in my industry who had been through this. I was laid of at 58/59. I was thrilled and ready for it. But the latter may depend on the practice in your jurisdiction.
Keep you interview skills up. Apply for positions outside the company...to practice those skills, to determine what experience/knowledge is marketable, etc.
Maintain up your industry contacts and/or develop more.
Once you are past your early 50's be prepared for that tap on the back. Get your financials in order, understand your rights, your pension scheme etc.
Maintain a record of your personnel correspondence, you job performance reviews etc, at home. Assume that if and when you get that tap on the shoulder all of your company IT access will be cancelled. Do not sign anything ...such as a release!
I aslo got recommendations for good employment lawyers from colleagues in my industry who had been through this. I was laid of at 58/59. I was thrilled and ready for it. But the latter may depend on the practice in your jurisdiction.
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