just came back from a vacation two weeks ago after getting notified in December. As I start looking for jobs on the internal job board, there isn't that many positions as I thought it would be. But so far every job I applied ended with a rejection. Is it just me?
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exactly. I was thinking about just that yesterday. They should have hired a recruiter to help the impacted find actual jobs. The risesmart people don't do that. I asked.
If Cisco were serious about finding alternate position to impacted employees, they would have assigned an internal recruiter to each. This was obviously not the case, so I did not waste my time even looking at the openings.
Two weeks and three days ago puts the start of your search about two months after the December layoff announcement and after the first possible "last day of work" date of February 3.
As a hiring manager (not at Cisco) knowing nothing about your situation I'd be expecting a great answer to the question "why the lack of urgency?" and if I have other candidates I may test you by seeing if you recognize this without me explicitly asking.
The other issue is were you the only layoff in your group or did the whole group go? In the latter case they can say it's a purely business decision and therefore don't need to mark anything in your personnel file but if it was an individual layoff they probably need something there to defend the company's decision and unless you really screwed up it's going to be subjective and therefore at best a matter of debate. Odds are hiring managers have access to that commentary without context.
This isn't to prompt you to defend yourself to us - just to propose issues which you may need to find ways to work around. The VP sponsorship comments by other posters is another issue to consider.
What you described happened in past LRs too.
If you're high in your pay grade or over 50, good luck! You're targeted.
HR can't handle the load. The folks on the layoff list are screwed unless they have a VP looking after them, or they get lucky! Reorgs are being done without the jobs ever posted leaving the Sr people out. Several Jr people were promoted into higher level roles just to keep costs down. Cisco is trying to cut costs, end of story, no matter what the VPs say and what Chuck told shareholders.
It’s you.
You will continue to get rejected unless you have VP sponsorship....that's how it works when you get LR'd.
you are not alone. it is all executive bs and theater. They all should win academy awards for the acting!
Listing of those internal positions we receive from HR each month is nothing but embellishment. I wouldn't say every position has not been sought, but most have already been backfilled or just decorations to make the company active.