Hello,

12 Comments

1. BarbaraOctober 27,2025 at 3:29PM UTC

   Well sadly you need to set your expectations immediately. Sign up for unemployment asap. Expecting to find a job in less than a month is truly optimistic. You gave no indication of what your field is so. It sure how available jobs are right now. Good luck

2. AnonymousOctober 27,2025 at 4:43PM UTC

   Tell us what industry you have experience. LinkedIn - set up job alerts, then be sure to go to company websites to add you to their recruiting systems or ATS systems. Connect to everyone you know and tell everyone you're looking.

3. AnonymousOctober 28,2025 at 1:02PM UTC

   I have experience in finance and operations. I've applied everywhere and still haven't received any responses.

4. AnonymousOctober 29,2025 at 12:30PM UTC

   With all due respect, it's been since October 7. While I understand yes, you've been laid off and it's scary and all...many times it takes employers longer than that time frame to even get around to reviewing resumes and scheduling interviews and making decisions. Please make sure that you have filed for unemployment.

5. AnonymousOctober 30,2025 at 5:12PM UTC

   Have you looked at CPG companies? They tend to stay steady in market storms. PepsiCo, Mondelez, Hershey. I don't know your location, but all are international companies and each site you can set up job alerts. Def set up job alerts on LinkedIn and you will often times see a contact to connect. I had a colleague laid off recently. What's sad is good solid workers are laid off and they need to be picked up by other companies who are stronger. I hope that helps a little, but also, if you are degreed, go back to your alma mater and connect with alumni career coaches and also, use their recruiting system. Handshake is one of them.

6. AnonymousOctober 27,2025 at 5:17PM UTC

   I don't know if this is any consolation since the financial drain is very real, but (according to the AI Overview in Google) the average time to get hired again after a layoff in 2025 is two to six months. I was laid off at the beginning of August and am just now getting enough momentum to get multiple interviews a week. Keep applying to jobs every day (I aim for 1-5 daily), and make sure your resume lists a lot of skills. You don't have to update it for every application, but if you see a job description listing a skill you have but didn't feature on your resume, add it, and keep updating as you come across new ones. The same thing goes for if you get an interview, and they ask about a specific skill you "forgot" you had. Remove your graduation year and the exact months for each employer from your resume. Add a ton of people in your industry on Linkedin every day. Then, after applying for each job, check to see if any of your connections work there. If they do, send them a short message saying that you noticed they worked at XYZ company and that they just applied there. Ask if they'd feel comfortable forwarding your resume to the hiring manager. Tack on a question to show genuine interest, like how they like the company culture, what their favorite thing about working there is, etc... Think of each interview as practice for the next one. This will soften the blow if you don't get the job. Good luck, friend!

7. AnonymousOctober 27,2025 at 5:42PM UTC

   Apply for unemployment and make getting a job your job. It's a tough job market and it can take a long time to even get an interview much less an offer. Network as much as you possibly can.

8. AnonymousOctober 28,2025 at 12:35PM UTC

   One thing that worked for me, although it took a month or two, was to post my resume on the usual job boards plus one in my specialty. Recruiters do look there, as I ended up receiving quite a few responses. In the end I had three interviews and the third one was a well-paying contract job with a major company.

   Under some circumstances it could have led to a "full time job" as it did for some of my previous predecessors. They liked my work, but the client company w as changing directions at the time and I survived quite a few layoffs before my contract ended. In the past, some of my best full time positions have resulted from conversion of contract jobs.

   An advantage of contract jobs is that you have a chance to get to know the company and the culture, as well as them getting to know you - no "shot-gun wedding"! Also, since they know how "fabulous" you are as a known quantity, you can often negotiate a higher salary than if you walked in "cold" off the street.

   Do be sure to quantify your achievements to show how you can help the bottom line: revenue generated, expenses saved, customers obtained, processes streamlined, etc.. If you need some good ideas, Andy LaCivita has a wealth of free materials to get you started.

9. Jenni TimmsOctober 28,2025 at 12:44PM UTC

   I was laid off on September 5th with no intent to bring back because my position was eliminated. I have applied for so many jobs and still nothing. It’s insane.

10. AnonymousOctober 28,2025 at 11:41PM UTC

    The job market is a dumpster fire. It took me 3 months after being laid off this year to land and in that time there were 100s of applications, linked in messages , personal referrals, and interviews. You gotta hustle more now than a couple years ago.

11. AnonymousOctober 29,2025 at 1:58PM UTC

    Layoffs are rampant right now. Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing.

    Amazon just cut 14,000 jobs

    Nearly two million people in the U.S. have been without a job for 27 weeks or more, according to recent federal data.

    Behind the wave of white-collar layoffs, in part, is the embrace by companies of artificial intelligence, which executives hope can handle more of the work that well-compensated white-collar workers have been doing. Investors have pushed the C-suite to work more efficiently with fewer employees. Factors driving slower hiring include political uncertainty and higher costs.

12. AnonymousOctober 30,2025 at 12:24AM UTC

    Have you considered being a "Substitute Teacher"? Here in our area, the Local School Board has @ 200 openings across all grades and hired a recruiting firm to help fill the gap.