So how about you?

If yours is a fear of redundancy then one of the positive things you can do (apart from updating your CV – which just about everybody will be doing) is look at your situation objectively.

If it’s decidedly shaky and there’s little you can do in the short term to improve it, you might as well admit it to yourself rather than just ignoring it.
 
How about thinking what your options are rather than just hoping the axe won’t fall on your head?

You may already be on, or decide to take a skills course in your own time, yet the results from that will take time to ‘kick in’.
 
What other opportunities could be under your nose or round the corner, just waiting for you to notice them? Who do you know that you haven’t been in touch with for a while that you could catch up with and maybe bounce ideas off?

Here at Redundancy UK we aim to provide you with the platform, the resources and the information you need, not only to sort yourself out, but to help others as well.  Don’t forget about our Redundancy UK Guide we mentioned in our inaugural blog.

So don’t just sit there: Do something positive!

Welcome to Redundancy UK and our very first blog!

Is redundancy a fear or reality to you right now?
Redundancy means CHANGE. So before we launch into this let’s just stop, relax for a moment and remember you’ve already  experienced many changes in your life:

• Going to your first school
• Moving up to bigger schools – losing some old friends, making new onesFirst ‘proper’ job
• True love that maybe resulted in marriage
• Breakdown of relationship maybe ending in divorce
• And so on…

Some of the changes you’ll have chosen and others will have been inflicted on you.  And what happened each time?  If the change was of your making you would have been more likely to have wholeheartedly embraced it. Whereas if it wasn’t your choice you might have railed against it and tried to recover the status quo.

The UK, like the rest of the world, is already reeling from the recession. There’s no point ignoring it and hoping it will go away.

So here at Redundancy UK we’re going to look at redundancy as a fear and redundancy as a reality over the next days and weeks and come up with ideas and ways to help not just survive but THRIVE if it happens to you. We have also got a Redundancy UK Guide to help you get started.

The most important thoughts we want to leave you with for now are:

• Your mindset and approach
• What you want and don’t want
• What you focus on and how important it is to you

These things will affect your outcomes, so one of the best things you can do is start thinking seriously about what YOU want.

But don’t forget others.  Any comments you might make on the Redundancy UK blog in the days, weeks and months ahead may be invaluable not only in clarifying your own feelings and aims, but also in helping others achieve some clarity of purpose as well.