#4 – Job reductions, layoffs & how to manage your career overcoming job uncertainty with Nancy King
Update: 2018-03-19
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Dr. Nancy Koury King, Biography
With over 25 years of leadership experience , Dr. Nancy Koury King has been on both sides of the firing line. Her personal and professional experiences inspired her to write about the lives of people affected by involuntary job loss and how to improve the workplace. Dr. King has a doctorate in management from the Weatherhead School of Management and a Masters in Social Administration from the Mandel School at Case Western Reserve University where she studied social capital and leadership. In addition to work in health care leadership, Dr. King has served as an adjunct instructor at Case Western Reserve University and The Ohio State University and as a part time faculty member at Capital University where she taught business ethics. Dr. King has spoken nationally including at the Academy of Management’s Annual Meeting on the topic of social capital and leadership. Dr. King lives in Norfolk, Virginia.
Job uncertainty is the new normal. As Dr. Nancy Koury King reports, twenty-one million people involuntarily lost their jobs in 2015. She spent five years traveling the country and interviewing some of these individuals.
Now, King is sharing their stories with you. If you happen to have lost your job as well, King assures you that you are not alone. If you haven’t already, you have the chance now to prepare yourself for the world of job uncertainty.
Follow Nancy on LinkedIn, or check out her website at: www.jobuncertainty.com and check out Nancy’s great book Fired: How to Manage Your Career In The Age of Job Uncertainty.
Nancy’s Secret to Success
Links to References Discussed
Fired: How to Manage Your Career In The Age of Job Uncertainty – book
Office Space – movie
Up in the air – movie
Leadership & Self-Deception – book
Question for the audience:
What was the biggest takeaway from this interview that will HELP YOU SUCCEED?
Share your thoughts in the comments below, or on social media.
Show Notes
- 2:15 Intro to Nancy and background in Senior Living industry
- 9:15 Nancy’s experience working with the Human Resources department
- 11:32 HR – in the business of helping those who help others
- 12:44 What makes a good HR partner
- 14:15 HR should make the effort to know the business
- 14:53 HR should understand the employee experience to better help the business
- 15:31 What led Nancy to write her book
- 19:38 Will there be a volume 2 to your book?
- 20:33 What led to traveling for this book
- 21:32 Did job uncertainty apply to a specific industry or is it widespread
- 22:53 Indicators that someone may be losing their job
- 26:37 Focusing on the employee side vs employer side of the story
- 28:39 Has job security, pensions, etc. changed in the recent years
- 32:35 Developing & diversifying your skillset
- 33:38 Having to worrying about health insurance
- 35:55 Always think about having a plan B
- 42:55 Is there ever a nice, or proper way to lay someone off
- 47:28 Never forget the Human in Human Resources
- 47:52 First tip to overcome job loss
- 52:12 Steps to find your next job
- 54:43 Put on your own breathing mask before helping others
- 56:27 Rapid Fire Questions including:
- If you had an extra 30 minutes in the day how would you spend it
- Favorite or go-to apps
- Book or resource you recommend the most
- How to manage to filter thru the noise
- Tip to help from becoming in a job that becomes obsolete
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