Career Success After a Layoff: Your Attitude and Work Ethic Are Very Important to Your Career.

Actually, the best career advice would appear to be using your common sense while at your current employ. If you were the boss, what would your reasonable expectations be?

Career Success after a Layoff: Part II – Working for a Department of Defense Contractor

The DoD product industry combined with the software engineering discipline seems to offer unparalleled opportunities for experienced workers in this country. Yes, there have been layoffs in the DoD contractor sector, big ones too, but eventually available experienced workers seem to continue to get employment in this field and up until recently, have continued to get pay increases over time.

Career Success after a Layoff: Part I – My Experience

I think a vitally important reason that I’ve maintained employment and increased my salary since my layoff is the unique combination of the discipline and the industry I’m in: I am a software engineer of highly complex, safety-critical, world-class Department of Defense products.