Keeping Your Confidence After Losing Your Job

Keeping Your Confidence After Losing Your

By Yalanda Taylor, Recruiting Partner

 

Whether you've been laid off or leaving a toxic environment, losing your job and losing your confidence seem to go hand in hand. To be successful in retaining your confidence after losing your job, here are some tips to leave the pitfalls of the past employer in the past.

 

• Don't fake it till you make it. Why struggle in silence when you can ask for help?
• What's good for the goose isn't always good for the gander. Be adaptable to learn new processes and leave past organizational practices with your past employer.
• Kiss up (a little goes a long way). Get acquainted with colleagues outside of your department. Your new acquaintances may become future allies.
• Play on your strengths and present them to your new employer by taking on new projects and solving old problems.
• Weaken your weaknesses with training, learning new skills and finding a mentor.
• Trash is treasure. Your new job may very well have a need for your skills that were underutilized at your last job.

 

Don't confuse losing your job with losing your confidence or career. Demonstrate your confidence to registered employers and upload a video résumé on a virtual recruiting platform to find your new career.

 

Yalanda Taylor is a Human Resources Director with a quest for maximizing the potential in others. As an experienced recruiter, Yalanda knows that presenting the best in others unearths the best in each other.

Yalanda has over ten years of human resources experience and possesses an MSHRM from Troy University. She also holds PHR and SHRM-CP designations. In addition to Yalanda’s full-time role, she also owns a virtual recruiting platform, CruitScout.com.

Yalanda is the mother of a new teen, who suddenly knows everything, and a festival-follower and incidental foodie. Yalanda is available for recruiting services, writing projects and private consultations. You can reach her at info@cruitscout.com.