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Job Loss and Resignation

How to handle a job loss, including information on what to do when you are fired or laid-off, how to resign, and how to move on.
Building Relationships as You Leave Your Job
Leaving your job can be a positive transition for everyone involved. You have the power to ensure that leaving your current employer strengthens your relationship and reputation rather than destroying it.
Employee Benefits When You Leave Your Job
Find out about the employment related benefits that you may be eligible for when you resign, get fired, or get laid-off from your job.
Employee Rights
When the economy slows, companies run into difficulties, businesses scale back their workforce, and layoffs increase.In fact, if you look at what has happened with major corporations, it's often not predictable. It's important to know what your rights as an employee are when you lose your job.
How to Handle a Layoff
What should you do when you receive notification of a layoff? First of all, you should check with your company on the benefits you may be entitled to when you leave. Then, it's important to file for unemployment insurance, and to make sure you have all the bases covered, so you can start a job search.
Job Loss Checklist
When you have lost your job, it's important to check on compensation due, benefits, references, and unemployment.
Leaving Your Job
Leaving your job including how to handle a termination or lay-off, how to resign, retirement, how to say goodbye to co-workers, along with sample letters and job loss advice.
I Quit! How to Resign from Your Job
It isn't easy to resign. Even if you hate your job, hate your boss and can't wait to start that new job, or you if are about to be fired, it can be difficult to resign tactfully. First of all, be sure that you really do want to quit. Then, handle your resignation as carefully as you would handle any other business endeavor.
Time to Move On?
You're tired all the time; you don't want to get out of bed in the morning; you can't concentrate at work anymore. Guess what, you could be one of millions of Americans that need to consider a job or career change.
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