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How to get help if your have lost your job

You could lose your job for one of various reasons. Sometimes, a company may wish to save cost by downsizing or improve profitability, company changes its operations and feels you no longer have the capability or the skills and it would be too expensive to retrain you, or it could be that you haven't performed as well as they would expect of you. Whatever the reason, losing your job is extremely difficult, but there are ways to get help and help yourself.

Below are some of the steps you might want to consider but in no particular order.

If you have just lost a job and are finding yourself in financial difficulty then the first thing to do is go to your social services, where you will get some financial support until you have found yourself a new job. Remember to apply as soon as you have lost your job because it could at least a week for them to process your claim, probably longer.

Analyse yourself and ask yourself why you have lost your job. If its because you have not performed in your current job then you might want to make a visit to your local careers office and discuss with a careers advisor, who might provide an idea as to what you should do next i.e. look for a job where your skills are more complimentary, take a short course to refine your current skills, on the job training, etc.

You might find that, while your skills were not quite good enough in your most recent job, you are qualified enough at lots of other similar positions. So apply for similar oppositions at other firms.

You can re-evaluate your career. You may feel that the line of work you were in is not one that you want to be in and find yourself hard to motivate.