Ashish Kothari on job loss: expect a three to six month search, longer for senior roles. Use the downtime to build skills and reframe it as opportunity, not setback.
About three to six months on average.
2024-03-27.
There are a lot amongst us who are navigating this transition, unplanned transition, I should say, of the loss of a job and what to do next. Typically it takes about three to six months on average to find a job. Now it might take longer if you're senior in your career versus kind of entry. It also depends a bit depending on the skill set that you bring. But on average it takes three to six months. But more importantly, how can you make the most of this time that you have all of a sudden? Usually our works consume 40, 50 hours, if not more of our real productive capacity. And now that's a gift that you have over the next four to six months. Even though right now it might not feel like a gift, might actually feel like more like a curse or even questions of why this actually happened to you. But trust me, in the grand scheme of things, if you use this time the right way, you will be more thankful about this time in your life than maybe many other times before.
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