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here, i can send you one of these. should help.

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j/k. we talked. you know what i think.

Sorry to hear about your lost I have been there as well.
And agree with the ours. You say you feel indebted. Hey that debt was paid according to your last sentence. IMO
The best of luck.

Start talking to recruiters now. Nice to have multiple options.

If I recall, you're in pharma sales? PM'd you.

Good advice so far all. Jyl - I PM'd you back.

My career in porn would be "short" lived.

I have an appt with a recruiter next Friday to discuss a job offer I declined last January. Seems the position is still open so I'll look into it again. Luckily, I have been a solid performer having gone to President's Club 2X in the 9 years I've been in sales. The first 10 years were spent in other positions in the company. Each move was a promotion.

Your job now is finding a new job, make it a positive experience.

Good luck.

Here is a good site for your job search (where I found my current job)

Job Search Made Simple | Simply Hired

Best of luck!

If for some stupid reason that you use a phone in the office to call another company, dial another # after. I went throught this a few times and another person would enter the office after me to see who I was calling so they could use my work to give them leads.

Don't wait! Are you crazy?

It's taking (on average) people about 15 months to find new employment now once they lose a job. If you have until September and actively start looking now, you statistically cut that down to 11 months you'll be without income rather than 15.

That alone is reason to get looking - and now. Frankly you should have been looking already. The new norm in the business world is to always be actively looking and engaged. My current job is pretty safe and secure and I still send at least a couple of resumes out every month and have had three interviews with other places since I started in 2009 even though I had no intention of leaving. You just never know anymore. Loyalty doesn't count for crap.

The absolute best thing you can do is be your own boss. I'm working on that one too, but it's slow going in this economy. The best of both worlds is to keep pursuing that while being fortunate enough to have a paycheck coming in.

Interesting responses. I'm in the same boat - my job will be eliminated in October. My boss has said they'll find me another position, but honestly, in the 20 years I've been there only once have people found new positions after job eliminations and both were pretty much entry-level employees.

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Originally Posted by SeanPizzle (Post 6736407)

What do you sell? 20 years with one place is a long time.

1) Get on linkedin. Ask for customers and business partners to write you a recommendation.
2) Ask your customers what other vendors are hot and doing a good job. Never underestimate a customer's ability to pull strings to help you out.
3) Quantify your achievements. What percent of quota attainment did you get? Did you go to President's Club? Recruiters want someone who has history of achievement.
4) Start researching competitors and reaching out to them. It's highly unorthodox for companies to lay off sales people unless they are underperforming or part of an underperforming division. Smart companies layoff sales generators last. If you have a rolodex of strong customer relationships, you will be worth a lot of money to somebody.
5) Since you haven't looked for a job in 20 years, i highly recommend getting some career conseling and practice interviews. You will need to get comfortable discussing your accomplishments and turing that around into what you can do to help that employer. Start early in this. You want to be negotiating from a position of evaluating several opporutnites and not out of desperation for any job that gives you an offer. It's all about quantification of achievements, spinning these into applicability to the position, and closing on the next step in the "sales/interview" cycle. Ask for every job, you don't necessarily have to accept any.

Have to agree with all of above. Make sure you get out and meet everyone you can who may have a relationship that's slightly relevant to your field. Over Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner/Afternoon tea/Drinks/whatever let them know you are looking for something and ask if they know of any people/companies that might need someone with your skill set. Then use these people to help get in front of them. This spreads your contacts one additonal layer and gets you a personal introduction. Good Luck

I wouldn't leave anything to chance. I'd start looking hard right now, starting with my own network. Nobody has your best interests at heart like you do.

Four months is a nice runway. Network, Network, Network. LinkedIn, Coffee, lunches, etc. - get out there and don't do a search from behind your desk or rely on recruiters. You'd be surprised how many positions become created or a req opened when the right person wants you - but you will never know unless you get the word out.