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This Element is an excerpt from Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (ISBN: 9780137021147) by Martha Finney. Available in print and digital formats. A leading career consultant reveals the right ways to use social networking to move your career forward and find the job of your dreams. Play nice, follow community rules, and social networking can open up surprising opportunities for you. You just need to know how to work the system to your best advantage--and stand out from crowds of milling networkers, all wanting to keep each other up-to-date on their most trivial doings....

This Element is an excerpt from Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (ISBN: 9780137021147) by Martha Finney. Available in print and digital formats. Get your head and heart together after you're laid off: what you'll feel and how to handle it. You've been barreling at top speed for years. Working long hours, taking your Blackberry on vacations, even sacrificing your health. It's exhilarating. Then it stops. Done. Finito. Sorry. Sign this. Get out. You're laid off. But your heart and mind still surge forward at full speed. Not much can prepare you for the sudden, slamming stop.

This Element is an excerpt from Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (ISBN: 9780137021147) by Martha I. Finney. Available in print and digital formats. Laid off? Perform “personal strategic planning” to stay on track, focused, and strong enough to say “no” to the wrong offers! Unless you relish being truly and officially self-employed, languishing between jobs for six months is intolerable. But leaping into the first thing that comes along isn't a great idea either. You need a plan--and tapping away on your laptop on your sofa in your PJs doesn't qualify....

This Element is an excerpt from Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (ISBN: 9780137021147) by Martha I. Finney. Available in print and digital formats. Play your social networking cards right--and find the best new job of your career! Play nice, follow community rules, and social networking can open up surprising opportunities for you. You just need to know how to work the system to your best advantage and to stand out from the crowds of milling networkers all updating each other on their most trivial doings....

So, you've been laid off. Or you see it coming. You're not alone. And it's not your fault: you're just one of millions of smart, high-quality people who are being shown the door. But none of that makes it feel any better! What can you do? What should you do? How do you cope with the havoc that losing your job can cause? This sympathetic, practical book brings together all the answers you need to empower yourself, and come back stronger than ever. Author Martha Finney is one of the nation's leading workplace experts: her research has been featured on CNN, NPR's Morning Edition, and in major newspapers across the country. Drawing on powerful insights and personal stories from an enormous network of experts, she brings together all the knowledge and resources you'll need to regain mastery over your life. Finney answers questions like: How can I keep getting laid off from wrecking my life? How can I protect my professional reputation and career path? How do I get past the anger? Why haven't I heard from my coworkers? How do I keep all my options open? How do I tell my family, without damaging their faith in their own futures? What are my rights? Can I sue? Should I? How do I keep this from happening again? From start to finish, this book will help you identify your best next steps: the steps that'll help you get past the trauma and move forward, emotionally, financially, in your career, and in every part of your life.