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2022-12-22T13:29:51.525Z


Against the background of the hi-tech layoffs, it is important to remember that in a dynamic industry where many move from company to company anyway, layoffs from one company can be the entry ticket to another


For many, the days after disconnecting from the work environment are a 'mourning period', but after coming to their senses they realize that this is actually an opportunity (Photo: ShutterStock)

There are those who recruit

Hightkists, are you fired?

Maybe this is your lucky day, because while your previous employer is laying off workers to cut costs, the competitor across the street has started handing out cocktails at the weekly happy hour to recruit them.

And if you haven't found it yet, then we contacted the recruiting companies for you and collected some tips for a quick return to the workforce.



Are you confused?

We too.

Because the job market in the high-tech industry has never been hotter and more confusing, and this, by the way, is good news for its employees.



The environment of interest rate hikes has indeed severely damaged hundreds of high-tech companies that need cash to continue their activities, and are unable to raise it due to the closing of investors' pockets.

But at the same time, hundreds of other companies have finished raising tens and hundreds of millions of dollars even before the beginning of 2022 - and these are only accelerating their activities.



This is how it happens, that while parts of the industry based on human capital are forced to cut the meat in order to reduce expenses, while other parts of it take advantage of the situation to steer the workers directly to their production line and respond to the needs of promoting their activities.

Adi Zamir, HR Director at Optimove (Photo: Optimove)

Among the companies currently recruiting are Optimove, which is developing a platform for marketing automation and increasing sales, and Bookaway, which has developed a platform for purchasing digital tickets for buses, ferries and flights mainly in developing countries, which are recruiting about 50 employees together, among others from the fields of development, data, and finance.



Adi Zamir, HR director at the Israeli company Optimove

: "The company plans to strengthen its ranks in the coming year, mainly on the technological side, and the very fact of firing an employee is never a failure. Our only test is the level of suitability for the position and the work environment in the company.



Layoffs are always a difficult experience, between Whether due to the closing of the company or for any other reason, but after a few 'mourning days' that may be required, it is worthwhile to derive benefits from the crisis, such as sharpening the career direction.



Just sit down and understand what we like and want to do, what we are good at, which parts of work we enjoyed more and which less, what is important to me in the next workplace, what challenges we pose ourselves, what conditions will satisfy us, and from there start looking for the ideal place for us.



In this context, it is important to note that it is important not to bring up negative things about the previous workplace, and to bring up the most restrained version of the truth, alongside the gaps in expectations or the incompatibility with the nature of the previous company.



As someone who is responsible for human resources in a company that is now recruiting, I can testify that it is important to me to hear that the candidate knows how to end each engagement in a proper and respectful manner, while closing the ends and transferring the position and the information related to it in an orderly manner.

When this happens, most of the time the dismissal will not be an obstacle for the next job."

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Shiri Wax, CEO of the Gotfriends placement company (Photo: Gotfriends)

We will point out that pushing workers back into the workforce is also necessary for the economy.

A document published by the World Economic Forum last October, for example, revealed that about a third of all spillovers in the American economy to periods of unemployment began as a result of temporary layoffs.



These constituted about 36% of all American unemployed during recessionary periods and contributed about 98% to the increase in unemployment during the Corona period.



The studies show that the economy, along with the companies themselves, will have difficulty recovering financially when the percentage of unemployed is high, compared to reductions that return workers back to the workforce within a few months.



Shiri Wax, CEO of the placement company Gutfriends, adds: "In high-tech, you change jobs every two or three years on average, so you have to look at a layoff as a late advance rather than a crisis, and start striving for the next job.



There are a number of rules of thumb that can be very helpful to candidates in general, and to the fired in general, and among them;

Care for letters of recommendation or a list of recommendations from the organization, especially if the layoffs were made as a result of downsizing.



Also, prepare yourself in advance for the interview in the form of successes and achievements during your work at the previous place, remember to mention how you contributed to the workplace in the position you held, and pay attention to the fact that employers are trying to find out how the interviewees can contribute to their company, so it's a good idea to learn about the company before you come to the interview."



So after you have prepared Mentally yourself back in the workforce, it's time to upgrade your resume and start activating your friends. Wax adds that "it's good to update your resume along with LinkedIn with as many buzzwords as possible about what you did in your last job.



LinkedIn has become one of the arenas where the talent hunters work and work to find suitable employees for the various recruiting companies, and the presence there should be topical, contemporary, and oriented towards the job you are looking for yourself."

be first

Zamir adds: "Timing is everything. When a sought-after position opens up, most of the first candidates who send their resumes get an application (assuming that the skills are suitable).



So it is recommended to keep up to date with the job sites/LinkedIn and various forums on a daily basis, even several times a day, in order to catch the job as long as it is "hot", and to be one of the first to send the resume to her."



In the high-tech industry, however, quite a bit comes thanks to friends, and

Ayelet Bar-El Avisher, a recruiter at Bookaway

, directs the laid-off "to look for companies that interest you personally, and look for friends in them or those that friends know.



The introduction will allow you to reach the company, hear Learn more about her and the work environment there, thus also getting to know more about the possibilities there for you. And maybe through getting to know each other, an opportunity will also arise, even if at the moment there is no vacancy there.



I can testify that some of the good candidates who came to the company came through friends who heard that I was looking and made the connection with those potential candidates.

To be that potential candidate, you have to work on networking and meet people all the time."

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Source: walla

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