How to talk about being unemployed

When faced with job loss, many people are so overcome with shame and embarrassment that they hide beneath a rock and avoid talking about their situation with others. This can be problematic for many reasons, says Jean Baur, author of the recently released book Eliminated! Now What?: Finding Your Way from Job-Loss Crisis to Career Resilience.

“Sustaining a ruse that you’re still employed, so that your family, friends and neighbors don’t know the truth, takes a lot of energy—energy you need for your job search. Secondly, you are virtually guaranteeing that you will have almost no help from your network because no one knows you’re looking for work. And lastly, this ties you to the past—to your past job, past schedule, and so on, and therefore makes it much harder to move forward,” Baur explains.

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