I know two people who were laid off in January. Neither had landed another FT job - they are getting by as contractors. One asked me to do an internal referral for them for a CDW job. I'm happy to help out, but what is the likelihood of CDW rehiring him after laying him off five months ago?
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It is very hard in the market for new jobs. Be prepared to take 3-4 months to land a new one
I did! It took found months though. I got it through my network. Hundreds of apps before that went unanswered.
see the previous post about lifers. A lot of people who got let go had basically just become CDW process people and did not have skills up to date with the market.
When you're supposedly a 'cloud' anything but can't define any part of what a CSP is - why would you land a better or equivalent job?
Best a lot can hope for is to leverage their 'in' with CDW to land with a partner unless they're willing to educate & become the role they've been telling people they are this whole time.
The True Unemployment rate is 24.2% ( https://www.lisep.org/tru ) for April. That's why they are having a difficult time finding full-time employment. The current unemployment rate of 3.9% reported by the gov't leaves out people who no longer get unemployment benefits and are still looking for a job, AND those who have given up looking for a job cause they couldn't find one.
Also, AI is starting to take over many jobs slowly, especially those that are repetitive. This is the reason people need to save every penny and stop spending on unnecessary things just because they want it. In five years, unemployment will be very high. Also, I'm predicting, inflation will come down until the Nov elections, but then it will sky rocket very high up because USA can only afford to pay interest on it's 35 Trillion dollar debt. For example: if you owed someone 10,000 dollars three years ago and made only 40,000 a year, that means you owe them 25% of your salary. But today, due to inflation, assuming your pay also increased, let's say now you get paid 80,000 dollars, then the debt of 10,000 dollars isn't that much. Only 11% of your salary compared to 25%. That's why the government will not want to see inflation decrease anytime soon (but only for a few months heading into the election), because the debt it owes will be smaller (like 11% in the example compared to 25% without inflation). It's a game of numbers. The rich, mostly people who have money, invest in stocks and making at least 50% from their investment. The poor, who do not have money and live paycheck to paycheck, are getting even poorer because now they have to pay more out of their pocket for rent, food, clothing, etc because inflation is high and interest rates are high. The gov't printed lots of money during covid, but now it's all ending up in the hands of the rich. That's why you see the S&P500 go sky rocketing up. And not many seem to be concerned about the 35 Trillion in debt. But when the stock market tumbles downwards, it's going to tumble down very fast. And then unemployment will be very very high. And printing the dollar won't help because the more you print, the less it is going to be worth. When you have two apples, you want to enjoy eating them. When you have a tree of apples, you won't care for it much, since you can have an apple whenever you want. Same thing with printing USA dollars. It's worth decreases as you print more. I think, after the election, the economy is going to get really really bad. So save every penny. You'll need it to pay the heating bills and put food on the table while you try to find another job if possible. Good Luck All !!!