Sorry to hear that. Hope you bounce back soon. I had some work disappointments over the last two years, you just have to adjust. Also, expand your skill set if you can. Good luck!
I was just on the other side of this: on Tuesday I had notify three of my direct reports that they are being laid off. 
I hope you started watching Billions. I love that show.
Ouch. I’ve had my share of forced career changes and layoffs into the teeth of bitter recession, but this year probably takes the cake for a bad time to be unemployed in the USA.
Good luck to you and to everyone similarly situated. I know a lot of other SDMB folks are already in that rickety boat or are about to take the forced swan dive into it.
Thats been my experience too and its scary.
What has happened to me with the last 2 jobs I got was I applied for a ton of jobs on indeed, which somehow caused recruiters for jobs I didn’t apply for to see my resume and recommend an interview for a job I didn’t know about, I interviewed and got the position.
Of the 5 or so jobs I’ve had since I graduated, I think I only directly applied for 1.
Three were from recruiters calling and one was a job where I interviewed for a position, didn’t get it but the interviewer felt I’d be good for a totally different position that opened up months later.
Its kind of disheartening that you can send out resume after resume and what really gets you a job is basically just luck.
I really don’t like my career, I need to find something else to do. I’m sick of layoffs.
I found it to be mixed over the years. Working in technology and consulting firms in New York, the large number of companies and constant churn seems to create a constant need for recruiters to look for people with certain skills.
I’ve had some luck with direct applications. I usually don’t expect much, but it does work sometimes.
Networking really works best. You can’t go to “networking events” or job fairs though. It’s useless attending some event full of other jobless people looking for jobs. You need to go to industry events or other places where you will meet people who are in a position to hire you or refer you to someone who can. Having a friend “refer” your resume at a large company may help a bit, but I haven’t seen it be that effective (from either side). All that happens is that it gets put slightly ahead in the stack of resumes some anonymous HR person weeds through.
Really the best “networking” is someone you know who is or can put you directly in touch with a hiring manager. This works best at smaller companies. What I’m finding now is that larger companies tend to make it a more formalized process so some VP can’t just hire one of his college buddies for a Director of Whatever role.
But, yeah, it’s all basically “luck”. I applied for a job at Salesforce through a friend who works there. According to the confirmation email, over a million people apply to Salesforce every year. There are 701 job openings currently, so lets say there might be ten times that for the entire year. That means for every posting, Salesforce receives 140 applications. As an interviewer, I might consider 10-20 to go through the process for one offer.
Agreed.
Any news on the job front?
I actually have a first interview for what is basically the job I had but at a competing software company. So hopefully that goes well.
Other than that, mostly just a lot of exploratory conversations.
Give 'em hell.
Thank you. Turns out I didn’t have to do much. It was basically just the recruiter confirming my interest in the role and letting me know about the interview process. Sounds like the real work will begin next week.
I’m ummm, “pullin” for you. 
And now I have a new job…so yay me. Pretty exciting stuff!
Excellent news! It’s too early for anything but coffee right now, but will toast your interviewing skills with better stuff this evening.
Congratulations! Getting a new job right now is quite an accomplishment.
Fantastic! Congratulations to you!
Nonsense! It’s still 2020 somewhere!
That’s is good news. Even better news – the hard part is over!
Great news!
StG
Terrific! Congratulations!
Thanks (all). More than the interviewing skills (which I admit are formidable), it’s really the networking skills. And a bit of luck. A lot of things happened to come together at the right time to land me this job.