220427 Ja Finance 1-4

220427

By BRETT HOWIE

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Define Globalization

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Define Automation

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Define Recession

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What can cause job loss?

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Why is it important to be aware of how factors beyond your control might lead to job loss in your company, field, or industry?

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What career do you think you will have?

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2. What are the skills you will need for that career?

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3. What are alternative careers that you could use those skills in?

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What are other skills that you might develop as you work in that career to maintain your value or learn new things?

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5. What are actions that you might take if you find yourself without a job?

​Develop a plan for handling potential job loss.

Remember that your plan should be: 

Realistic: It should involve actions that can actually be done. 

Directed: It should have some concrete goal that it aims to accomplish.  Straightforward: It should not be filled with complications or uncertainties.

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Organize your plan into steps you will take before job loss occurs and after job loss has happened.

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What can you do before a job loss to better prepare you for handling it?

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What should you do after a job loss in order to better get a good job.

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Why is the potential for job loss something that many people ignore or fail to consider when choosing a career they wish to pursue?

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How can job loss impact more than just your financial well-being?

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How might having planned for the possibility of job loss allow you to treat the experience of losing your job as an opportunity for professional growth, exploration, or change?

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How is planning for job loss similar to planning for other unpleasant (but inevitable) realities of life? Describe how well you plan for such possibilities and why doing so is important.

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Which elements of this activity did you find to be the most useful or impactful in terms of affecting choices you will make once you begin to work for a living?