A guide to surviving layoffs

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve recently been laid off, see a possible layoff coming, or know someone who is affected, we made this episode especially for you. You’ll hear other Hello Monday listeners talk about past layoff experiences - how it affected them, what they learned, and where they got to. Then, we present an in-depth conversation with Andrew Seaman, LinkedIn’s Managing Editor for Jobs and Career Development. In just over 30 minutes, we’ll offer some camaraderie and lots of practical and tactical tips on how to survive this period of your working life. Resources: Follow Andrew Seaman and join the Get Hired community. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. Follow Sarah Storm on LinkedIn and visit her on the web. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and reach our team directly at HelloMonday@LinkedIn.com.

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0:00.0	The LinkedIn Podcast Network is brought to you by the Progress Report,
0:03.3	a podcast created by Kendral, your partner for continuous technology and ovation.
0:08.0	Listen to the Progress Report wherever you get your podcasts.
0:12.9	LinkedIn News
0:18.3	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday,
0:22.1	our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.
0:25.8	It's been more than three years since I have been creating the show most of that time with
0:33.9	our fearless producer Sarah Storm. And in all that time we haven't had a moment quite like this
0:39.5	in our economy and at work. I'm talking about layoffs and the other have been moments where
0:45.8	there have been a lot of layoffs. The beginning of COVID for example, all of a sudden it seemed like
0:52.0	everything was in flux, but that moment was acute and it shifted quickly. This fall feels
0:57.8	different. There's been a long, prolonged even time of resizing and right sizing.
1:06.0	Company is what names you would never expect to hear layoffs from are reducing their staff
1:12.1	by significant numbers. And maybe you're one of the people who has been impacted by that.
1:18.3	Today's episode is for anyone who has layoffs on the mind. I don't know that we have
1:22.8	answers at Hello Monday. I don't know that we have new jobs. I don't know that we have a promise
1:27.3	that everything is going to turn out okay. But what we do have is experience, so much collective
1:32.8	experience of the listeners who've gone through these experiences. And of me and Sarah and let me
1:38.0	tell you Sarah in particular, she's kind of an expert on these things, and deeply passionate about
1:43.1	them. And so this week, Sarah is going to host a very special episode on layoffs. Here's Sarah.
1:53.3	Thanks Jesse. My spouse and I are no stranger to layoffs. Between the two of us we've experienced
1:59.6	several over the last decade. The reasons were different every time, but that never made it
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