With economists using the “R-word” and layoffs ricocheting across the workplace, now’s the time to get serious about your personal protection planning.
Ask yourself the following question: “What if I’m laid off in November 2008?” What would that mean to you? Here are the 20 questions you can’t afford to leave unanswered.
1. Do you have savings to tide you over?
2. How much would you need to pay essential bills every month?
3. How accessible is this money?
4. What’s the state of your network?
5. Whom do you need to know?
6. How will you get to know those people?
7. Are your contacts fully aware of your skills, expertise, recent activities, special attributes?
8. How “leading-edge” are your skills?
9. What skills do you need to beef up?
10. How will you do that?
11. What help can your professional association be?
12. What help do you need to determine your marketability?
13. Is your resume ready to use?
14. Is your resume located in your home office, not at work?
15. How about other documents and data you will need to use to job hunt?
16. What would you do about healthcare?
17. Is your home office set up to launch a job hunt?
18. What do you need to up-date or add?
19. Do you have all the tools you need?
20. Have you bought the FireProofYour Career Guide?
The Guide will help you answer all these questions and get your personal protection planning underway quickly and efficiently.
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