Who Bounces Back Best from Job Loss?
I've been there. I lost two jobs in a row in my 20's. Neither was really my fault (in one case, I accused a vp of sexual harassment) and in the second, my boss accidentally stepped on the toes of her boss when hiring me. But there I was, out of my second job in less than six months. Fortunately, I went on to have success at my next job and this was just a bitter memory. But why do some people recover from job loss , while others don't? A new study by Syracuse University provides a deeper understanding of why some people recover after losing their work identity, while others languish and develops interventions that facilitate recovery from job loss, according to newswise.com. “It can be a devastating loss of identity when someone loses a job they’ve held for decades,” says Trenton Williams, assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the Whitman School. “For some, the loss might come in the form of an injury, such as a professional athlete, but for others, ...