Laid-Off: 4 Reasons to Ask Your Former Employer to Pay for Your Career HMO Membership
December 17, 2010

- It costs them $49 to sign you up, and only $9/month after that. So, for less than $150, they can set you up with a career coaching service for a full year that will focus on helping you find a new job. Given the average length of unemployment is 7+ months in America, it really is the least they can do, don’t you think?
- It helps off-set the bad publicity. Instead of spending the first few weeks telling all your friends and family how bad your former employer is (not the kind of word-of-mouth branding the company wants), the Career HMO will guide you and motivate you to want to find a new employer. In fact, it will prove to you getting laid off is enabling you to finally approach your career in a way that will let you find greater professional satisfaction. You might even end up being grateful to your employer for letting you go.
- It’s an expense to the company, so they can write it off.
- Getting help with your job search from proven experts will shorten the time you spend collecting unemployment. Translation: The company could save a bundle.