Rebuilding Your Career After a Layoff in SEO

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  Part 1Rebuilding Your Career After a Layoff in SEO

  Layoffs hit even the SEOs who survive every prior cut. Paul Andre de Vera, founder of Answer Engine Optimization and a 15-year enterprise SEO leader at Workday, Stripe, and Anaplan, spent two years rebuilding after a startup layoff—landing his next role by ranking a target keyword number one within 24 hours during an interview. He breaks down using your own SEO skill set to build a personal brand and rank for your name, the over-deliver interview approach that makes you memorable to recruiters long after the initial conversation, and a content refresh strategy that pairs SERP-driven optimization tools with AEO factors like declarative headings to win in both traditional rankings and LLM results.

• Part 2The biggest SEO skill becoming more valuable because of AI

  AI search now pulls from every channel, not just web pages. Paul Andre de Vera, founder of Answer Engine Optimization and a 15-year enterprise SEO leader who drove growth at Workday, Stripe, and Anaplan, explains why the T-shaped marketer has become the industry's most valuable profile. The conversation covers building a metric stack that moves beyond traffic dependence, executing content refreshes structured for both traditional rankings and LLM extraction through declarative subheadings and quick facts, and applying your own SEO skill set to personal brand visibility as a career differentiator.

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