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article, career counselling, job loss, New Jersey, NJ: "Feelings about Job Loss

by Beverly Baskin, Ed.S, MA, NCCC
Director and Career Counselor, Baskin Business and Career Services
Marlboro, Princeton, and Woodbridge, New Jersey

According to the Social Adjustment Scale by Holmes, job loss is the one of the top three stressors in a persons life. People often have feelings similar to those of grieving or mourning and listed below are the stages of grief:

1) Shock

2) Denial

3) Anger

4) Bargaining - Asking the company to take you back

5) Isolation

6) Depression

7) Finally - Acceptance, Reintegration, and Renewal"