Career & Life Transitions

Turn disruption into a controlled next sequence.

Use this hub when a layoff, job change, benefits transition, severance question, or job search creates multiple deadlines at once. The goal is to organize the transition before optional decisions crowd out urgent ones.

Start Here

Choose the issue closest to the work in front of you.

Each path below uses a governed destination. When MMG does not yet have an exact matching resource, the path stays in learning rather than sending you to an unrelated product.

Layoff first steps

Layoff first steps

Separate immediate account, benefits, documentation, and deadline tasks from decisions that can wait.

Open Layoff Benefits Rescue →
COBRA & Marketplace transitions

COBRA & Marketplace transitions

Understand the coverage decision points created by job loss while verifying current eligibility, dates, and plan costs.

Open Layoff Benefits Rescue →
Job search reset

Job search reset

Rebuild the search around positioning, evidence, applications, networking, and a repeatable operating rhythm.

Open Job Search Reset →
Severance & work records

Severance & work records

Organize agreements, pay records, benefit notices, contacts, and questions before deadlines or access disappear.

Open Layoff Benefits Rescue →
Use the Hub

Understand first. Narrow second. Act third.

  1. 1

    Define the issue

    Separate the actual problem from the surrounding noise, assumptions, or urgency.

  2. 2

    Learn the moving parts

    Use a guide or Journal article to understand terminology, records, choices, and dependencies.

  3. 3

    Verify current facts

    When an external rule, policy, price, deadline, or specification matters, check the relevant authority.

  4. 4

    Take the next action

    Use the resource as a decision aid, checklist, or workflow—not as a substitute for required professional judgment.

Employment rights, unemployment rules, benefit elections, severance terms, and deadlines vary. Verify current employer, plan, agency, and jurisdiction-specific requirements.

Learn Before You Buy

Use the Mindset Journal for context and the library for action.

Read educational coverage first when you are still trying to understand the problem. Move into a paid guide only when deeper structure would actually help.

Related Problems
Related Path

Health & Benefits

Use this path when the work transition creates Medicare, ACA, COBRA, claims, or health-coverage decisions.

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Money & Consumer Defense

Use this path when the transition becomes a cash-flow, debt, subscription, billing, or consumer-protection problem.

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Keep Moving

Return to the full problem map whenever the issue changes.

A guide should reduce friction, not trap you inside one category. Use the Problem Solver Library to reroute, or browse Digital Assets when you already know the kind of resource you want.