A person’s first instinct when they lose their job is to find a new one right away. But it wouldn’t hurt to take a few time off and reflect why you lost the job. Maybe there’s something you lack. Maybe there’s something you can improve. Maybe you can invest in yourself more and learn new things. Learn new skill sets. Explore and experience new more things that could help you land a better and more stable job in the future.
Unfortunately not everyone has the privilege to not work and focus on themselves that’s why they never improve in terms of the job they land on. Since they don’t have the time to focus on themselves and their skills, they remain only on a specific level and their wages are also the same.
Mate first and foremost most times people don't lose there job because they don't know much about their role, remember redundancy can come as a surprise in the office at anytime, another thing is may be due to what the company or firm want or even they lack of the required skill to remain in the said position, this things happens, though you made a very good point, when an individual lose his or her job, I think such person should first and foremost know why he lost the job, if it's because of his lapses then it should be time for him to work on him or herself in other to get another job without encountering what he or she encountered earlier, being without job should be an opportunity to seek for more values for yourself and your CV so that you won't be going for lower options when you're finally ready, this will keep you above your equals when your CV is been presented to any firm or establishment if the need arises.
But another thing we should consider is, what if the individual involved doesn't have the finances to take up this skills, because in some cases there may not be enough saving for some of this skills so what now happens?
Yea some people may not have the opportunity to work and at the same time focus on improving themselves but the truth is that there are courses we can get online so I think there is no excuse on this one unless one can not afford the amount being paid for such courses online.