Dr. Wayne PernellCEO and Founder, DynamicLeader, Inc. · Leadership Advisory and Development - vision and strategy

Navigating Transitions: From Layoffs to Unexpected Opportunities #shorts

Name: Navigating Transitions: From Layoffs to Unexpected Opportunities #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-07-19T02:00:01+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Dr. Wayne Pernell
Description: Aetna laid off the speaker in the 1990s, killing his plan to work with printed documents. At a university career fair, he landed a sales job with Bell…

19 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Aetna laid off the speaker in the 1990s, killing his plan to work with printed documents. At a university career fair, he landed a sales job with Bell Atlantic Mobile, which became Verizon Wireless. A layoff forced him to try something completely different.

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Obviously all of it's now online and on the web but back then it was all printed stuff and so Mother Aetna had done a whole bunch of layoffs in the 90s and I took the sixth one and went out and tried to explore and I figured I would get a job doing that kind of thing in terms of documents and that wasn't going to work. And then I switched over to thinking about recruiting but I didn't have any experience so it was the chicken and the egg thing. And so then I went into sales and it was completely serendipitous. I went to a career fair at the local university and I literally was on my last kind of leg and I gave them my resume and I was a little older than your most and they picked me up and that was Bell Atlantic Mobile picked me up in terms of sales now they're known as Verizon Wireless. So then they picked me up and I was grateful for that and.

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