How to Your Explain a Layoff at Every Stage of the Job Search

Read this is best articles about how to achieve these goals at all stages of the job hunt, in writing and in person:
• Resumes and Cover Letters. Most career experts say you shouldn’t mention a layoff at all in a cover letter.
“A cover letter is strictly to market yourself,” says Marianne Adoradio, a career counselor in Silicon Valley. “‘Here’s what you’re looking for, here’s what I bring.’”
• Networking and Interviews. Face-to-face communication is critical, both in informal conversations with people while networking and in formal job interviews. This is where questions about your layoff will likely come up, and you need to be prepared with two answers: one about why you left your job, and one about what you did during the time you were unemployed.
“If it’s the first time it happened to you, it’s going to feel awful,” says Libby Pannwitt, a career counselor and principal of Work Life Design Group in San Carlos, California. “You need to get over it and find the right words to talk about it wherein there were no bad guys