❤️‍🩹 Self-Care Essentials After a Layoff

❤️‍🩹 Self-Care Essentials After a Layoff

Nothing can properly prepare you for the emotional ups and downs that getting laid off will inject into your life. The self-doubt, anxiety, fear, and optimism followed by rejections. Job seeking is a full on contact sport and we need to train and prepare as such. This means that both our mind and body needs to be in peak performance for extended periods of time. While the following methods aren’t always easy to stick stick to, fundamentally they are pretty straightforward.

Maintain a Routine

Action: Create and adhere to a daily schedule. If you have family responsibilities like school drop-offs, incorporate them into your routine. If not, set specific times for job searching, skill-building, and relaxation.

Why: A structured day provides a sense of normalcy and focus, making it easier to tackle the challenges of job searching.

Invest in Well-Being

Action: Allocate time each day for physical exercise, whether it's a home workout or a gym session. Incorporate mindfulness practices like meditation and breathing exercises into your daily routine.

Why: Regular exercise and mindfulness practices have been shown to improve mental health, reduce stress, and increase focus. These benefits make you more resilient and effective in your job search.

Help Others, Help Yourself

Action: When you find yourself feeling low or overwhelmed, take a break to assist someone else. This could be as simple as checking in on a friend or volunteering your skillset for organizations that could greatly benefit from it.

Why: Research shows that acts of kindness can boost your mood and energy levels. This positive shift in your emotional state can make you more effective in your job search.

Dive Deeper: We previously wrote a piece on Tech-lanthropy in a previous post that outlines a number of places to volunteer your skills. We dive into it in the section below as well.

Reconnect and Network

Action: Use your newfound time to reconnect with old friends, former colleagues, or even mentors. Update them on your situation and ask about theirs. You never know who might have a useful lead or advice.

Why: Networking is a powerful tool in job searching. Additionally, maintaining social connections contributes to better mental health, which in turn makes you more resilient in your job search.

Dive Deeper: Check out our previous article leveraging Alumni Networks for support and to find your next role.

🛟 Tech-Lanthropy: Using your skills to help those in need!

When you're busy helping someone in need, whether it's through volunteering or providing support, it can be a powerful distraction from your own problems. It allows you to shift your focus away from your own challenges and instead channel your energy and efforts toward positively impacting someone else's life.

By selflessly giving back, you often find a renewed sense of purpose and fulfillment, and it can provide a fresh perspective on your own situation. Helping others can be a meaningful way to gain perspective, find joy in making a difference, and gain a sense of gratitude for what you have.

If you’re looking to get out of a rut, below are some organizations that you can get started with:

• TechSoup: A global non-profit organization that provides technology products, services, and resources to other non-profit organizations to help them improve their operations and increase their impact.

• Engineers Without Borders: A non-profit organization that sends engineering volunteers to communities in need around the world to develop sustainable solutions for water, energy, infrastructure, and other engineering-related challenges.

• Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team: A non-profit organization that uses open-source mapping to support disaster response, humanitarian aid, and community development initiatives. They offer volunteering opportunities for tech-savvy individuals to contribute to mapping projects.

• FullStack Academy's CodeSmith: A non-profit organization that provides free coding boot camps and mentorship for individuals from underrepresented communities to launch their careers in technology. They offer volunteering opportunities for experienced software engineers and mentors to support their students.

💼 Jobs of the Week

Trying out something new with cherry picking some job opportunities at top tech companies.

1. Software Engineer, Core Technology

   • Company: Sony Interactive Entertainment Global

   • Location: San Mateo, California

2. Senior Software Engineer, Backend

   • Company: Turo

   • Location: San Francisco, California

3. Software Engineer II, Growth

   • Company: Amplitude

   • Location: San Francisco, California

4. Frontend Software Engineer - Core Web

   • Company: Verkada (Cloud-based video surveillance)

   • Location: San Mateo, California

5. Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

   • Company: RemoteAmbition

   • Location: San Francisco, California

6. Senior Software Engineer II, Dispatch

   • Company: Cruise

   • Location: San Francisco, California

7. Senior Software Engineer - Database Platform

   • Company: Snowflake Computing

   • Location: San Mateo, California

8. Fullstack Software Engineer II - Remote

   • Company: Clari

   • Location: San Francisco, California

9. Principal Software Engineer - App and Collaboration Platform

   • Company: Snowflake Computing

   • Location: San Mateo, California

10. Staff Software Engineer, UI - Product Enablement

    • Company: Fastly

    • Location: San Francisco, California

📉 Notable Layoffs this Week

• Online retailer Zulily is cutting an unspecified number of jobs in its latest round of layoffs, GeekWire writes.

• Target-owned delivery service Shipt is laying off 3.5% of its workforce, ABC reports.

• Staffing software company Bullhorn announced a 9% reduction in force, citing a downturn in the staffing industry. Bullhorn currently has around 1,600 employees.

• Biotech company Beam Therapeutics is letting 100 employees, or 20% of the company, go as part of a new project hierarchy, Fierce Biotech reports.

• Trucking company Convoy has laid off the majority of its roughly 550 employees after revenue "collapsed" this year, according to The Information.

• Google has laid off 40-45 of its Google News employees, CNBC reports.

• Finnish telecom company Nokia is letting up to 14,000 people go as it seeks to cut costs, CNN writes. The company currently has 86,000 workers around the world.

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