📌 How to get hired by Big Tech in a recession (a career cushion guide)
Career Cushioning is the new 'Recession-Ready' work trend and catchphrase corporate humans are crushing over. With massive layoffs all around, it can pay to prepare.
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📌 “Career Cushioning” & why you should do it?
As Cathie Wood (CEO of ARK) said, “We think we’re in a pretty significant inventory recession, but we don’t think it will be anything like the systemic recession and financial crisis” in 2008 – 2009, she said. It’ll be more of a garden variety.”
How do you become “recession-proof?”
Leave quiet-quitting, if you’re enjoying your job it might be time to prepare a career cushion. With a new bout of redundancies hitting our headlines daily and a recession coming up.
What is Career Cushioning?
Career cushioning is the process of covertly putting together a Plan B while still working. The phrase "cushioning" originates from the dating wprld, where people who are in relationships soften the blow of a breakup by leaving their options open for new partnerships. With digital behemoths like Twitter, Meta, and Amazon making headlines with hundreds of layoffs and making the rest of us concerned about our job security, it's easy to understand why this phrase has entered the workplace lexicon.
Why is everyone Career Cushioning?
You need to be familiar with the workplace buzzword "career cushioning." Career cushioning is a kind of psychological pivot: you come before your job, similar to silent resigning. Even while you're still dedicated to your current position, you're considering what's essential to you, your areas of passion, and the potential paths your network and experiences may open up for you.
How to do it?
To start, no need to feel guilty. According to career strategist Abbie Martin: Many people feel that looking for another job while already employed is cheating on a company, which I find insane. That said, career cushioning is mostly job-searching lite, and activities like networking and job board scanning are best-done off-hours. Ready to have a secret cushion? There are three key steps:
1. Evaluate your skills and build on any you’re missing that you’d need to land your next big job.
2. Stay connected (or increase) to your network - who knows when someone might need someone exactly like you to take a role.
3. Plan out what you’d like your career to look like in the future. Get ahead of the game by thinking about where you want to go next before you have to.
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Great one, hadn’t heard the term before this.