Redundancy is usually a painful blow and represents an early end to your employment. It can knock your confidence and usually with a significant income gap which you will need to fill as soon as possible. Depending on your skills there will probably be other opportunities you could apply for but if you are coming out of an industry which is declining then you may be looking at a long hard fight to get back into a job and start getting a salary again. Hopefully your employer will have been able to pay you under some form of redundancy scheme and this financial assistance will keep you going through the initial few weeks but no redundancy payment will last for ever, so a broad thinking strategy for getting income flowing again it what is called for.
This is when finding Online Jobs or starting a work from home operation can come into its’ own. The prospect of setting up an enterprise in the normal way, or buying a franchise, might be too off putting. However it should be possible to start a Work From Home business doing the sort of tasks you have done in the past. Think about why you have been made redundant in the first place. It is usually because your role is no longer there. But it could also be the case, rather than your job disappearing all together, it might just be that there was insufficient work to justify your full time position, but there is still some work you could usefully carry out.
So initially you should speak to your previous employer to offer your services on a part time self employed basis. Offer to do this work from home as and when there‘s work to be done. This will probably be an attractive proposition because the former employer is familiar with you and how well you work and does not have to commit to providing you with a full time position, or allocate space for you in the office. Failing that, consider your previous employers competitors. It could be that some of them have occasional use for your skills and may be attracted by the thought of you working as an ad hoc sub contractor. Put together enough such small informal contracts and suddenly you have a viable, full time work from home business.
