Before his layoff in early 2020, Roger Slowinski had never applied for a job online. “I’d been with my company for 28 years, through a few acquisitions,” Roger said. “I started out as a field service engineer, then when the company moved me to Omaha, I did tech...
Starting to work for a new company can be both exciting and anxiety-provoking, especially if the new job is your first out of college. The current coronavirus pandemic adds an extra challenge to this often-stressful time. Many new hires have seen their roles and...
As the director of national sales for an information technology company, Melissa Armstrong traveled around the country three weeks out of the month, going to trade shows and conferences, and meeting with customers and prospects. It was on one of these trips, in early...
Getting laid off can be stressful for anyone. But getting laid off after decades at a company—when you’re the family’s primary breadwinner—is a truly disorienting ordeal. Jennifer O’Shasky experienced this firsthand in 2018, when she was let go from her business...
How do you fit 13 years of work into a tiny section of a resume? That’s what Elizabeth Ramirez wondered when she was laid off from her longtime marketing position at a multinational agricultural company. “I’m not going to lie, I was a little scared,” Elizabeth...
