How to Beat the Negative Thoughts Ruining Your Job Search
September 3, 2010 by admin
Filed under Job Search
First, resolve to be a bit more thoughtful about it.
Then, spend more time than usual. Job searching is, like, your new job. Stats show that, on average, unemployed people actually spend less than 30 minutes a day job seeking.
Why is this? I think it’s two things: the frustration that comes with sending so many resumes and applications and having nothing to show for it; and the feeling that there are no job openings for the jobs that you want.
Think this through a bit. If you get frustrated because you never hear back from anything you send to employers, maybe something is wrong with this approach.
It’s possible that your resume is badly done or you have not done enough homework upfront to understand exactly what it is the employer needs from you. But let’s skip the resume improvement for the time being and instead focus on the employer.
The employer will almost never tell you what they want from you. Most of the time, they don’t know. They think it is someone that is in alignment with their job description. This is almost never true…
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