I experience lay off in early 2007 at the ripe age of 33. Maybe it is too young for me to be in such situation but nowadays, people die from heart attack at a much younger age! I was not the only one finding myself without paycheck back then. There were hundreds of others but to this date, I can see only a handful crawls back out of the pit safely.
The traditional way to search jobs in India includes ads in news papers and magazines. There used to be a special employment ads newspaper which alerted people of the jobs in India. Big cities had job consultants placed locally which attracted many candidates. These consultants used to charge some fees to and a percentage of salary after the candidate"s placement.