what to do after a layoff #layoffs #techlayoffs #careeradvice

5 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Taylor Desseyn shares what to do immediately after a layoff: grieve the loss, apply for unemployment, and sort out health insurance. Desseyn spent over five years at Smile before being laid off.

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Something you've said on this podcast is you need to take time to grieve. And that feels intuitively wrong. I wanna go and just guns blazing, like fire out as many resumes as I can. This was December 14th. It's mid-December. There's nobody hiring anyway. Yeah. So it was kind of just like, okay, like I'm gonna have to take this moment to grieve. That's something you gotta do. Especially for me, I had been at Smile for more than 5 years. Everybody on the team I personally hired. It was a bummer. The one thing I would say is you need to go and do a couple things right away. Figure out unemployment, 'cause it takes some time for that to process, at least in Tennessee. And then what's your health insurance situation?