Manager reviews a list of people she will layoff this afternoon.
Planning a layoff?
30 percent of your people will find new jobs in a month.
The other 70 percent will average five months or more to find new employment.
The longer someone is out of work, the more difficult it becomes to find a job.
As a result, many will eventually:
• Look for a lower position than they previously held.
• Look for a job in a different field or occupation.
• Look for part-time work.
• Look for work under the table.
• Drop out of the job market.
After six months without a job, these job hunters are officially referred to as, “The Long-Term Unemployed.”
Many hiring managers are hesitant to interview them for their job openings. They feel that these long-term unemployed people were probably laid off due to poor performance.
Hi. I’m Harry Dahlstrom. I wrote Surviving A Layoff.
When writing it, I wanted people to know they’re not alone. Each year, millions of people lose their jobs when their employers have business slow-downs, they move their businesses to new locations, or they completely shut-down their businesses.
In Surviving A Layoff, I wanted to give them a simple, easy, plan to rebuild their confidence, manage their finances, and move off the unemployment rolls quickly.
Surviving A Layoff is NOT another 250-page textbook.
It’s the size of a news magazine--8 by 10 inches with 48 pages. You can read it, cover to cover, in an hour or so and get started that very same day. The chapters are short, easy to read, easy to use, and they include material you won’t find anywhere else.
Here are five important topics included in Surviving A Layoff.
- How to cope with the emotional stress of losing your job. How to tell your family. See the number of job openings and average wages for the largest 200 occupations in the USA. Then, use the step-by-step, job-search plan to get the job you want.
- Four ways to manage your bills so you can focus on the job hunt, not the bill collectors (see page 8).
- Just fill in the blanks to create a resume showing that you are the solution to a new hiring manager’s needs (page 22).
- How to side-step other job hunters and win job interviews and job offers with little competition--in half the usual time (page 26). This is also the preferred method to help the long-term unemployed find new jobs.
- Make a great impression by showing that you are friendly and prepared, while answering 50 tough interview questions with ease (pages 38, 44). Plus so much more.
The complete Table of Contents for Surviving A Layoff, 2025
• Your layoff is not your fault, page 4
• Take some time to heal after your layoff, p. 6
• How to pay your bills when you have no paycheck or savings, page 8
• Would this be a good time to consider a new line of work? page 14
• Job openings and wages for the top 200 U.S. occupations, page 16
• Show employers that you have the “right stuff,” page 18
• Use the “right stuff” to build a powerful resume, page 22
• Seven ways to get job interviews, page 26
• Let AIDA help you write a better cover letter, page 30
• Get ready for the hiring manager’s phone call, page 34
• Find three people who will give you a positive recommendation, page 36
• Enthusiasm, the key to a great interview, page 38
• Navigate your way through the four stages of a job interview, page 40
• 50 questions to expect during your job interview, with answers, page 44
• The art of the follow-up, page 46
• EXTRA. How to explain your long-term unemployment to a hiring manager, page 48
Over 6-million copies sold.
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Thank you for stopping by.
—Harry Dahlstrom, author
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About the author.
Harry Dahlstrom is the author of three national best sellers: The Job Hunting Handbook, Surviving A Layoff, and Out of Debt. Together they have combined sales of over 15-million copies.
Prior to that, Harry served as director of recruiting and outplacement at a small New England technical college. He is a graduate of Harvard University, cum laude. He also served two deployments as an Operations Specialist with the US Navy in Vietnam, plus the Apollo 9 Spacecraft Recovery, and the Amchitka Nuclear Detonation.
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