I answer three questions about the job search process.
All in Job Search
Has your job search stalled? Here is what to do.
In order to get back on the path of job search success, you need to analyze your job search activities and figure out what is not working and why. While it is easy to blame others for your lack of success, the majority of the time the issue is you and how you are conducting your job search. As Albert Einstein famously said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”
What is urgent/important in your job search?
How can you use your job search time more efficiently? Everyone only has 24 hours in their day. Each of these hours is precious. Once that time is gone, there is not getting it back. Therefore, using your time wisely, especially when it comes to a job search, is so important.
Moving and Need A New Job? 6 Steps For Success
When you start looking, potential employers will want to have a date from you as to when you would be available to start. If you cannot give them one, it makes the decision to bring you on much harder for the employer, as you have added a level of risk that most employers do not want to take on. Without a specific date when you will be settled and available for work, the employer cannot do their labor planning appropriately.
How To Successfully Job Search After Being Fired
So how do you position yourself when you have been let go from your job? What do you put on your resume or say to someone that asks you about it? This is going to be situational depending on what happened.
Want Better Job Search Success? Spend The Time On It
While there is not a direct correlation between the amount of time one puts into a job search and success, my anecdotal experience is that the more you put in, the more progress you will make.
Unconscious hiring bias. What is it and how to beat it.
Unconscious bias is everywhere people. While we may not want to acknowledge it, hiring managers bring their unconscious biases to the hiring process all the time.
Have Better Career Success When You Are On F.I.R.E
What they are searching for in financial freedom is the ability to have money in the bank so that they have more choices in their life. Money equals choices. Choices about what to do and how to do it.
Do You Want Job Search Success? Know Your “Why”
Part of the reason why resumes are mediocre and applicants do poorly in interviews is that they do not really understand their “why” for a new job.