How can people reinvent themselves after being laid off?
A person might start by asking friends for an assessment of his or her strengths, said organizational psychologist Daniel Russell of Aon Corporation, a consulting firm.
"What do people value about you that you never thought about?" he said.
Russell also warned against panic, and its paralyzing effects.
"When we're fearful, we get tunnel vision and tend to narrow our options," he said. "We lose our cognitive ability to scan the environment and evaluate options."
Experts also advise the newly unemployed to think about courses they took in college, especially liberal arts subjects they might have loved but dismissed because they didn't necessarily lead to professions. Continue
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