whenyou get made redundant if your company are willing to fund it they send you to an Outplacement programme. the idea is they identify your skills, help you with your CV and support you to find another role/ develop your career.. Yesterday was session one of 5 and we just talked (well he made notes) I seem to have discussed everyhting from my birth onwards - what he called a getting to know you session but I wonder if they sent me to a psychiatrist on the sly instead! It was exhausting but fun - who else would be willing to let me talk about myself and my very boring life for hours on end without slitting their wrists - no one is the answer! Anyway the next step is some 'blue sky thinking' before session 2 and a visit from a financial advisor they have hooked up. All very helpful and I am too embarrassed to tell them I don't have a career just a job!