I've been working for an elected official for five years. Now that person is no longer going to be in office and myself and the other 10 + staff who work here need new jobs before the end of this year. No one is getting hired! Our jobs as Policy Aides doesn't translate naturally into other governement jobs or non-government jobs. But I can promise you that each one of us would be an added value to any team government or not. This is a very frustrating process to go through.

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Could you transition to a communications, analyst, consultant, or strategist position in state government instead? Not sure if you have specific restrictions in working for state government afterwards.

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Take a look for External Affairs or Congressional Liaison for one of the federal departments.

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Unlikely that they will pick up political people before new administration.

Can you get your resumes out to incoming legislators? People do switch and newbies often need experienced staff.

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That's par for the course. Try to get picked up someone in the same party who just won reelection. Given you're in a political position, your chances for employment are much higher if you help your elected officials by volunteering, contributing, etc. I assume you know all this when you took the job.

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