Sitting someone down and walking them through your own experience without judgement or expectation is always appreciated.

I was laid off many times during the Optical Winter of 2001-2006 and developed a system for dealing with it. Handing someone the system and saying "You should do these things" is less helpful than telling the story of "The first time I got laid off I did a, b, c. The second time I had learned my lesson, and did less of a and more of c. The fourth time was different because blah blah blah"