Personally, as someone who was a senior director at big tech and a founder of a company, I’d suggest not talking to HR. They protect the company first and the employee second, they will not reveal any information that isn’t public and they will be assessing your willingness to stay and perform well at the current and future company. You will eventually have all the detail you need, so there’s almost no upside to this conversation but, there could be enormous downside.1These may be really stupid questions. I'm in my forties but only in my second job of my adult life, and the first job change was clean and simple: heard of something better, applied and accepted, off I went. Things have been great at job 2 for over a decade - until yesterday.
Yesterday my employer announced my entire department is being 'transferred' to a different corporate entity. While their 'goal' is to 'transfer everyone', we also are officially being terminated from the current employer and have to reapply for jobs with the new. The 'transfer' will be completed by late summer.
Help me understand where on the scale of alarm to be. The corporate-speak is thick. Are we really being 'transferred' if we have to reapply? I feel if it were a layoff, period, I'd know what to do: make even painful spending cuts. Apply for new jobs immediately. But I actually deeply enjoy my current job, and if I could more or less continue it under a new employer, I'd try to stay. Am I being naive to think staying is feasible, or that my 'new' job could reasonably resemble my old one? I have repeatedly been told I am a 'top performer' at my current job, but, have no idea if that will be known by, or matter to, the new place (since I don't know THEIR strategic goals, or the value they'd apply to my skillset).
We're in respectable shape financially but I feel I can't afford a big mistake - we have two teenagers and my spouse, who's my age, has a life-limiting illness. Am I being ridiculous to think staying is truly possible? Should I wait it out and see how the transition goes? Should I apply broadly immediately and get out ASAP? Thanks for any thoughts you can share.
For yourself and your "self", "respond logically and methodically after full research", rather than "react" which is clouded emotion filled with uncertainty.
2
Talk to HR, and whatever dept and whoever you need to at your current employer to find out "exactly", in detail, with "verifiable information" what is taking place, etc.
If you don't know enough, then there is "uncertainty".
3
If there is indeed a permanent "layoff/fired/etc" no matter the terminology, with a good possibility of having no employer at some point, then begin looking "now" for other career / job opportunities.
It does not hurt the present circumstances to "find out";
if you can find; fed/state/city comparable jobs
if you can find comparable jobs where you live
etc.
4
10 years from now, you might look at this point in your working career as something that happened and you went on to better jobs and higher pay and more rewarding endeavors.
So, "change" does not beget "catastrophe". It is just...."change".
It is our resistance to "change" that makes things feel catastrophic.
Best of luck.
Move forward.
j
Statistics: Posted by gips — Mon Jun 10, 2024 11:40 pm