The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Redundancy: a "mostly harmless" survival manual

🛸🛸 The Hitchhiker's guide to redundancy: a 'mostly harmless' manual for surviving the professional void 🛸🛸

What do you do when your career is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a corporate bypass? Too many professionals treat redundancy like the end of the universe, spiralling into the bureaucratic nebula of unemployment without a map. This session chronicles a six-month odyssey through the unknown, transforming a vulnerable period of professional upheaval into a practical, comedic survival guide.

What you’ll hear:

✨ How not to panic: How to steady your ship when the corporate ground disappears beneath you

✨ What to pack: Cultivating the core resilience and mindsets needed to navigate sudden career transitions

✨ Deploying your networking Babel Fish: Translating your experience into a language the market actually understands

✨ Navigating the bureaucratic nebula: Managing the identity shift, the job search logistics, and the administrative void without losing your sanity

✨ Embarking on your next chapter: Turning an unexpected full stop into a launching pad for a career that actually fits your trajectory

As long as you're packing resilience to brace the knocks (and your sense of humour), you’ll never truly be lost in space. A vulnerable, funny, and no-BS roadmap to surviving the void and finding your way back to solid ground.

👍🏼 The Speaker

✨ Alex Clarke is a Product and UX designer with over 8 years of experience, who after spending years building a successful professional track record, found himself facing the ultimate corporate plot twist: sudden redundancy. Alex’s story is a highly common and relevant reality for many professionals today, as organisations face mounting economic pressures to cut costs and restructure. Alex speaks candidly, sharing raw, hilarious and deeply practical truths about what it takes to pivot after a setback. By turning his own unexpected transition into a survival guide for the current job market, Alex proves that losing a job doesn't mean losing your direction.

Alex’s story has a happy ending too- as he’s happily found a new job as an Incubation Designer for Coles. Down, down, prices are down. Please. 🙏

📌 The details:

• Date: 6 pm, 11 June
• Host: Melbourne Design Thinking Meetup
• Special Guests: Alex Clarke
• Refreshments included: Pizza and fizz!