Laid Off by AI: A 90-Day Action Plan for Job Search, Income Recovery, and Career Rebuilding After AI Displacement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798250015912)

The average job search takes 68.5 days and that is for people who are doing it right. For displaced workers who start with the wrong strategy, it stretches to four or five months. Most people do not find out their approach was wrong until the runway is gone and the pressure to take any offer becomes unbearable.

Laid Off by AI is built around one idea: the order of operations matters more than the effort. A resume sent to the wrong place in the wrong format gets you nothing regardless of how qualified you are. A network conversation framed correctly can move faster than a hundred applications. This book gives you the sequence that works - from the first 72 hours after a layoff through the negotiation that closes the right offer.

What this book covers:

• Why AI-driven layoffs are different from recession layoffs - and why candidates who understand the difference consistently outperform those who do not
• The 72-hour triage that sets the financial and strategic foundation for everything that follows
• How to map your skills to current market demand and identify the adjacent roles that hire fastest at the highest compensation
• ATS optimization that gets your resume past automated screening - and why a well-written resume with poor keyword matching fails before any human reads it
• A networking approach built around information exchange, not job hunting, that generates referrals instead of awkward silences
• How to extend your financial runway so that every offer decision is made on merit, not desperation
• Preparation for AI-conducted first interviews, multi-round processes, and the follow-up strategies that advance rather than annoy
• Salary negotiation tactics grounded in market data, not personal preference - and why a single well-executed counter produces lifetime earnings gains that dwarf the discomfort of asking
• How to read your new employer's AI posture from the inside and position yourself as irreplaceable before the next restructuring cycle begins

The workers who recover fastest from AI displacement are not the most credentialed. They are the ones who understood the market they were entering, moved in the right order, and refused to let the false narrative of permanent skill devaluation determine how they priced themselves.

This book is that order. Written for working adults who need a plan, not a pep talk.