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National Career Transition Resource Guide
The first practical step after a layoff or career disruption, in one document, written for the week when reading anything feels like work.
- How and when to file, and the mistakes that delay a first payment.
- Health coverage options between jobs, side by side.
- Nationwide food, housing, and utility support.
- A first-week checklist so you're not deciding everything at once.
Steady Ground: Supporting Someone Through a Layoff
For family members, friends, partners, and trusted peers. Support does not mean taking over. It means helping someone feel less alone while they choose their next step.
- Listen first: what to say, and what to skip.
- Stabilize the basics without taking over.
- Protect dignity through a hard season.
- Stay steady for the long middle, not just week one.
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Career Compass Don't just ask “What job should I get next?” Ask “Where do I want to go?” A guided tool to explore your strengths, priorities, values, and possible directions for your next chapter. | Don't just ask “What job should I get next?” Ask “Where do I want to go?” A guided tool to explore your strengths, priorities, values, and possible directions for your next chapter. | Free | |
Stay, Pivot or Start Stay in your field, pivot into something new, or start your own path? A practical decision guide to compare your options and identify which direction deserves deeper exploration. | Stay in your field, pivot into something new, or start your own path? A practical decision guide to compare your options and identify which direction deserves deeper exploration. | Free | |
The Professional Reset: Clarity Workbook Before rebuilding your career, get clear on what you want to rebuild. Guided exercises to reflect on what worked, what didn't, what matters now, and what you want next. | Before rebuilding your career, get clear on what you want to rebuild. Guided exercises to reflect on what worked, what didn't, what matters now, and what you want next. | Free | |
Ready to Explore Additional Income Paths Your career doesn't have to depend on one income path. Explore ways to build additional income alongside your primary career through consulting, freelancing, projects, and skills. | Your career doesn't have to depend on one income path. Explore ways to build additional income alongside your primary career through consulting, freelancing, projects, and skills. | Free | |
Transferable Skills Workbook You have more career options than your job title suggests. Identify the skills you already have, translate them into marketable strengths, and discover where else they could take you. | You have more career options than your job title suggests. Identify the skills you already have, translate them into marketable strengths, and discover where else they could take you. | Free | |
Helping a Friend or Family Member Navigate a Layoff You want to help but don't know what to say. This guide gives you the words and the boundaries that are actually useful. | You want to help but don't know what to say. This guide gives you the words and the boundaries that are actually useful. | Free | |
Job Directory Guide Around 200 vetted job boards and platforms, organized so you're not wasting hours on dead links and duplicate listings, including full-time, fractional, remote, and government roles. | Around 200 vetted job boards and platforms, organized so you're not wasting hours on dead links and duplicate listings, including full-time, fractional, remote, and government roles. | $25 | |
The Bridge Income Playbook Real, vetted ways to bring in income while you find your next role, organized by how fast you can start and what you need to get there. Not a link dump. A plan. | Real, vetted ways to bring in income while you find your next role, organized by how fast you can start and what you need to get there. Not a link dump. A plan. | $25 | |
Layoff Conversations: Family Guide A layoff affects more than a career. Practical guidance for talking with your partner and family about money, uncertainty, emotions, expectations, and what comes next. | A layoff affects more than a career. Practical guidance for talking with your partner and family about money, uncertainty, emotions, expectations, and what comes next. | $15 | |
Layoff Conversations: Social Circles Guide You control your story. How to talk about a layoff with friends, colleagues, professional contacts, and your wider network with confidence and without awkward explanation. | You control your story. How to talk about a layoff with friends, colleagues, professional contacts, and your wider network with confidence and without awkward explanation. | $15 | |
30-Day Survival Guide The first 30 days after a layoff can shape what comes next. A week-by-week roadmap to stabilize your finances, protect benefits, organize your job search, and regain momentum. | The first 30 days after a layoff can shape what comes next. A week-by-week roadmap to stabilize your finances, protect benefits, organize your job search, and regain momentum. | $19 | |
Before the Last Paycheck Layoff rumors swirling? Get ahead of it while you're still employed. The moves to make now, before you need them. | Layoff rumors swirling? Get ahead of it while you're still employed. The moves to make now, before you need them. | $29 | |
SF Bay Area Job Transition City Guide Bay Area layoffs hit different. The cost of living doesn't pause. Local financial assistance resources, job leads, healthcare options, and housing assistance. | Bay Area layoffs hit different. The cost of living doesn't pause. Local financial assistance resources, job leads, healthcare options, and housing assistance. | $19 |
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