There have been talks about a hiring freeze at my current company, how likely will this translate into layoffs, despite my team leader stating that our team may be affected?

What would you do?

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Account management is first to go.

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Wait what?

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If they ain’t hiring, they ain’t far from firing

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In the coming months, there is definitely a chance that agencies would go through some trimming, as clients would be retracting their ad spends.

There is not much you could do. Control the controllable. Keep your self busy and try to network more or improve how you are perceived by senior leadership. This normally does the trick and keeps the radar off.

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Hmm, that is a tricky call. A hiring freeze means that they could start laying people off but on the other hand, they still need enough employees to handle the workload and you know they are not hiring people to take your place. But it couldn't hurt to update your resume and start putting some feelers out there

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I would at least start reaching out to recruiters and applying to jobs to get a warm pipeline going.

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