When your company of 14 years downsizes and lays you off, how do you cope? How personally do you take it?
Monica Calderon from Southern California lost her job in 2008 from the fashion industry. I sat down with her at Winchells Donuts in Pasadena and asked her how she is coping with unemployment. One of the first things I asked her is how personally did she take the news? She admits that she did take it to a personal level and that your career somewhat defines you.
Continue to follow her story...
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Edwin Duterte of PinkSlipMixers.com is traveling the country asking job seekers what they are doing during the recession, career coaches what a job seeker can do to better their chances to find work and hiring companies what job seekers need to do to get hired at their companies. He also is trying to ask how President Obama's Stimulus and Job Initiative is helping main street professionals. Edwin Duterte is trying to be one of Oprah Winfrey's last TV Show guest to keep job seekers motivated to find a new career.
PinkSlipMixers.com host pink slip parties and job search networking events across America.