• Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Master Executive Resume Writing Service

Professional Executive Resume Writing Services

  • Services + Pricing
    • Outplacement Services
  • Samples + Testimonials: Executives
    • Social Media Profile and Blog Content Development
  • Samples + Testimonials: Entrepreneurs
  • Reviews
  • Partner With Us
    • Our Writer
  • FAQs
  • Get Quote
  • Blog

March 6, 2015 By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, Master Resume Writer Leave a Comment

How to Wrangle Down Anxiety and Empower Yourself After Job Loss

anxiety

By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter

Losing your job often comes on suddenly. Even if you had seen signs of your job’s demise and were planning an escape hatch, the actual dissolution of your job still can feel like a smack in the face. In many cases, losing a job is like a death.

As such, many people find themselves grappling with unfamiliar emotions while they also must gear up for and conduct a job search, quickly. Feelings of unworthiness, fear, insecurity and even anger may circulate, leading to tears, aggressive behavior, reclusiveness, over-sharing, desperation, paralysis by analysis and more.

All the while, the drumbeat of finding a new job marches on, with or without your positive energy. And each day that passes without a job offer feels like weeks, weeks feel like months. Figuring out how to wrangle down bills until the next paycheck spurs further anxiety.

However, examining and unwinding from the negativity that has you all knotted up—if done well–can allow you to move ahead while also creating residual gains only possible from such a loss.

Some of the potential gains of job loss follow.

You can:

1. Reconnect with and sharpen your goals. Encapsulated in the borders of a day-to-day job, you kept your mind on the company goal but had no time to focus on personal aspirations. Your own goals, therefore, began to fade. With more time to examine and percolate on your next steps, you are now free to create a new picture ‘target’ that helps you aim your arrow.

2. Build a new story punctuated with the exclamation points of your achievements, including the nuances of your unique value. Take time to articulate your resume in a way that not only makes your future employer’s heart race, but also makes your own heart sing.

Follow this link for 3 more ways to empower yourself following job loss: Unemployed? Here Are 5 Things You Should Do.

 

Filed Under: Career Advice, executive resumes, Job Loss Tagged With: career advice, executive resume, job loss, resume strategy, Unemployed

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

903.523.5952
jacqui@careertrend.net
www.CareerTrend.net
Get Quote

Subscribe to our Newsletter

* indicates required

Subscribe to blog via Email


Enter your email address:



Recent Posts

  • Finding Freedom + Creative Expression From the Space and Beauty of Raw Land | Starting Over, Again
  • 7 People Making a Splash With Their Words of the Year
  • How a Year of Contemplation Led the Founder + President of Performance CXO, to Select His 3 Words
  • How I Chose My 2025 Word of the Year: Balancing the Nuance of Complexity With the Liberation of Simplicity
  • Executive: “Do This, Not That” When Writing (or Hiring Someone to Write) Your Career Story Resume

Facebook Community

CareerTrend

Categories

Tag Cloud

3 Words branded resume career career advice career branding career change career coach career documents Career Hope career management Career Story career strategy change Executive Career Story executive resume executive resume branding Executive Resume Story Executive Resume Writer interview coaching Interview Preparation Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter job loss job search JobSearch job search advice job seekers Life change LinkedIn LinkedIn Profile marketing New Year professional resume writer resume Resume Branding resume length resumes Resume Story resume strategy Resume Update resume writer resume writing Social Media unique value proposition unique value propositions value proposition

Career and Business News

Career Digital
Resume Twitter Career Job Search More >>

Campaign Websites for Conservative Candidates

Copyright © 2008–2025 | Career Trend | All Rights Reserved