The end of the week comes around and a notification drops into your email for an all hands meeting on Monday morning. Rumour is widespread. What is this all about? Are we canning the current project? Are posts on the line? It is a long weekend.
Monday comes – finally! The top bosses are attending the all hands meeting – it must be serious then! Yes it is. They are advising staff of the closure of the site in six months’ time and all the jobs are at risk of redundancy. Shock sets in. The whole site will be shut down. Around two hundred people looking for work. It is your worst nightmare come true.
There you were, doing a good job for the business, paying your mortgage and household bills, running a nice car and all of a sudden somebody else has pulled the rug from under your feet. You are annoyed, upset, confused, but you realize that you must gather your thoughts and choose what your next course of action will be.
It may be that you decide you are never going to put yourself in this position again, and one way to achieve this would be to Work From Home, for yourself. You have many abilities and it is important to be confident about them when your career bubble has just exploded. At a time when the Internet Business is gathering pace, you may find the best Online Jobs are just waiting for you.
While you are still in negotiation with your current employer, it would be a perfect opportunity to re-train, so that by the time you are redundant, you are ready to begin your Internet Business and can hit the ground running. Hopefully your redundancy payout will allow you to spend a little time building up your contacts and being paid for any work you have achieved to date. You may even find that you have found a niche market and can afford to offer Online Jobs to some of your ex-colleagues who also would love to be able to Work From Home, but perhaps do not want to set up in business for themselves. You are very much aware of the abilities you all have and know how best to use these.
When you are considering your Internet Business opportunities, it may be that you choose to use your current abilities in a totally new way. You were always flattered for your presentation skills, your ability to present precisely and in a way that seized the consideration of your audience. Could these abilities be used in any of the Online Jobs available? You were busy creating web pages for your company. Perhaps it would be possible to turn around this talent and look at jobs which involve search engine optimisation.
The key thing to remember right now is that you do have skills which can be used outside of your current career. This is sometimes tough to remember when you have worked for the same business for a number of years. Exclude nothing. If you want to continue in your current style of work, then be certain your CV is up to date and keep applying. If you think you would rather Work From Home then look at all the choices open to you, find something you are really going to enjoy doing and put in the time and effort to make it work.
Whatever happens, think on it is the site that is closing, or downsizing, not you personally who are being sacked and you have a lot to offer in your next role.