For the folks who can afford to take a time to find themselves, explorer entrepreneurship or dedicate time to family, I envy you and do that with gusto.
For the mid to early career folks or folks who moved here with family and who are now processing the upheaval that this has wrought then the first thing I will urge you to do is protect your mental health. The Internet ,specifically social media, can be aggregator of negativity and though you ironically you are reading this on the Internet, I just want to say that you will get the collection of all the bad things happening in the world ( especially around unemployment), delivered to you daily and important that you factored this in the content you digest. It’s an election year and if you know anything about media and America election year, is that it thrives on chaos.
So what next if you’re job-hunting… the first thing you should do if you haven’t already started is reaching out to your network, that includes any and everyone who might have worked with the past who is in position to get inside on companies that are hiring. Continue to tweak and resume your resume. My advice is to apply to as many jobs as possible, including one day you meet some of the qualifications. My logic here is that you see how effective your résumé is and you can use some of those phone screenings as practice.
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