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Re-employment Pathways
New firm,sameindustryLife styleself-employmentNew firm,newindustryGrowthStart-upFormaltrainingRetirementLower skill,lower payemployment12345678
Business fails or downsizes Unemployment One Stops Business struggles with weak strategy Business grows after retraining tied to new strategy
These pathways are approximate. They do not represent exclusive either/or choices for anindividual. So, for example, a person might take a lower paying job (Path 7), while at thesame time pursuing a new job in a new industry (Path 4).This map is designed to help workforce development professionals focus on the networksthat they can build to leverage their resources.The re-employment process begins with a business saddled with a failing strategy. Facedwith this situation, a business can opt to take a new strategic direction and developtraining programs that support the new strategy. The current workforce gains new skills toimprove productivity and accelerate innovation.Alternatively, the firm can do little or nothing to change its strategic direction. In responseto market forces, the firm starts job-sharing, downsizes significantly, or goes out ofbusiness. Unemployed workers now face several different pathways.Some workers may be able to move quickly to firms and closely related businesses. Thistransition can take place without additional training.Other workers may decide to change their career path and complete a formal trainingprogram that enables them to find a new job and a new industry.A small number of unemployed workers may decide to launch a growth oriented spin-offbusiness, commonly based on skills, intellectual property, or business experience theygained at their old employer.Alternatively, some workers may decide to become self-employed in their own lifestylebusiness.Some workers may reluctantly decide to take lower skilled jobs at lower wages.Some workers may simply retire.Some workers stay unemployed.12345678Continued unemployment99
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Charting re-employment pathways
Here’s a map of re-employment pathways v. 1.0. We will be using this map to help uskeep our thinking straight. Our workshop will focus on how to develop networks toimprove the productivity and speed of re-employment strategies. If you have suggestionsfor improving the map, head over to www.re-employment.net/forum
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