Don't lose sleep, don't stress out about the impending layoff.
Take action, whether you think you'll be laid off or not.
- while you are still at Symantec, document your work history! Use your annual reviews to pick the good things you've done, and the job-title you have, with the month & year information.
- before putting your linked-in profile as available for recruitment, set it to private.
- Use the information you've gathered from #1 to update your profile chronologically.
- Now, look at your profile and what you're doing lately. What kind of job do you want? What is your strength? Put that as linked-in summary, which is basically how you would advertise yourself to a job recruiter.
- have a friend review your linked-in profile & summary.
- open your linked-in profile to all.
- sign up for dice.com, indeed.com, glassdoor.com, etc. etc. Beware: you'll be flooded with email and / or text messages.
- if you find a job you are interested in, look at the description, create a resume based on the description + your linked in profile. Cherry-pick the stuffs from your linked-in profile that match the job description.
Good luck....
It's not the end of the world...
I wish people would post these as threads themselves, this is really valuable info. Copied from @10HiYBX2-5yhl.