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Laid Off… and How to Recover Well

 By Alan Kearns, career coach and founder of CareerJoy. On Dec. 8, 2009 Alan will moderate a webinar on "Balancing Purpose, Profit, and People," with author of Soul at Work, Margeret Benefiel and CBC's producer of "Tapestry," Frank Faulk. Click here are more details!

A layoff is one of the most traumatic events in ones career. Eleanor Clitheroe was laid off from her CEO position at Hydro One in a very public manner and went through a difficult time. Whether you are a CEO or a Junior Manager, the journey that one goes through is very similar. In a podcast with CareerJoy, a Canadian career coaching organization, Eleanor shares in a very honest way, her experience going through this difficult time, the challenges and the ways that she learned to move forward both in her personal and professional life. Her issues ranged from loss of identity to financial security to what was she going to do next?

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