I know I will be made redundant in next few months - what should I do to prepare?

starjumper

Hi, just wanted to tell you my story as I think it's a nice positive one.

Was made redundant in 2005 from my job in adult education, I was a bit bored anyway so I wasn't that gutted, got a 5k payment and took a month off (August, it was even a sunny one). I looked into claiming JSA but couldn't be bothered as it was a million page form and an interview at a job centre miles form home.

I knew I wanted a change of direction but didn't know what. After a month I signed up with a temping agency just doing basic admin stuff and the agency decided my niche was public sector so ended up doing odds and sods for the NHS, after 2 weeks got offered a 6 month (ended up being 12 month) temping gig as a PA for some Directors and stuff in the NHS, was on £7.50 an hour, not great but enough to tide me over and I liked the work, it was like giving my brain a holiday for a year and it was pretty low stress compared to where I'd been.

After a year I got a new job in another NHS organisation and 4 years later I've hopped about various jobs but I'm on decent-ish money in a decent job doing good things. As ever in the NHS my job is not secure and I could find the axe falls again in the next 12 months, but if it does I'll polish up my cv and go temping again, it's no big deal.

I think being made redundant is like life pressing alt-control-delete and giving you the opportunity to restart things. Embrace it!

VfM4meplse

starjumper wrote: »

As ever in the NHS my job is not secure and I could find the axe falls again in the next 12 months

12 months may be a bit optimistic, expect things to accelerate next month!

starjumper

VfM4meplse wrote: »

12 months may be a bit optimistic, expect things to accelerate next month!

Thank you so much for your cheery thoughts, how very kind of you. Do you work in the NHS perchance? I bet you work for NHS HR don't you which explains why you know exactly when the axe will fall on the brand new hospital I work in, yes it makes perfect sense to close down a brand new state of the art hospital with a months notice given to the local community. It also explains your indepth knowledge if NHS maternity policy.

Well done, p!ss off a pregnant lady, who, if you'd have bothered to read my post properly you'd have gathered is very open to redundancy and change etc and was highlighting in a nice way just what a positive thing it can be. Still if they do decide to close a brand new hospital in 4 weeks without public consultation then no doubt I'll be ever so glad you've given me the heads up.

diable

Might be worthwhile taking out an insurance policy that covers redundancy as it will pay X amount for a year, read the small print though and if you meet the criteria then go for it.