Workbook
After the Layoff
Rebuilding Professional Identity After Losing the Job That Defined You
The job is gone. The question is whether you are building what was next or what was safe.
For the person in the weeks or months after a layoff — past the immediate shock, in the sustained uncertainty of the search period — who identified heavily with their former role and is working through the disorientation of professional identity loss.
The Name It First Experience
The layoff was the event. The disorientation is what came after. Your Professional Identity Rebuild is for the sustained period when job hunting coexists with the deeper question of what you are hunting for. You separate the role you lost from the professional you are, name what you built that is portable, and document what you are building next — not the same thing again, but the right thing. Stress-tested and signed.
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Sample questions
- What has losing this job done to how you understand yourself professionally?
- What parts of your professional identity were tied to that role — and what are you rebuilding?
- What does the next chapter of your professional life look like, on terms that are actually yours?
Research basis
Bridges on transitions and the neutral zone between endings and beginnings / Jahoda on the latent functions of employment and identity / Blustein on the psychology of working and identity in career loss.
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