What to Do If You Lose Your Job

http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/outside-voices-careers/2013/10/21/what-to-do-if-you-lose-your-job "The Bureau of Labor Statistics show that more than 11 million people are currently unemployed." Apparently, a shorter term lay off can actually be a benefit to some poeple. Sander Flaum, the CEO of global advertising and consulting company, wrote a book called "The Best Thing That Could Ever Happen to You: How a Career Reversal Can Reinvigorate Your Life." This is a book specificly on unemployment that explains how to turn being fired into a successful future in 5 steps. These five steps are as follows: 1) avoid self sabatoge; this is basically telling unemployed people to keep their heads high and to stay confident. 2)Bump up your brand; saying that no matter how tough the economy is, there are ways to stand out and apply yourself to other jobs. 3) Recruit recruters; IF you apply yourself and constantly pest job recruters, it will be obvious that you want to work making it easier to get a job. 4) revise your resume; add more personal things to your resume but be sure to make they're professinal qualities of yourself, this is a huge plus to job recruiters 5) remember references; fidning a job alone is kind of hard, if you have a ton of references, you will be more known which could also increase the chance at a job. First of all, I dont see how unemployment can really be looked at as a good thing but i do find it very appealing to see these steps that people could take to find a job. It's great motivation for those people who are currrently unemployed. This article isn't directly an unemployment article but i found it to be interesting and eye opening. If more people would look at motivation like this, and apply themselves, im sure our unemployment rate percentage could be lowered.