Job search is tough, just wanted to share
this article I came across. Hopefully it inspires all you guys
looking for a job!
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link: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/organizational-and-employee-development/pages/your-career-qa-what-to-do-when-your-job-search-is-stalled.aspx
Feel like you're stuck in a job-hunt rut? Step
back and evaluate your professional survival skills. Best-selling
author Martin Yate, a career coach and former HR professional,
takes your questions each week about how to further your career in
HR. Contact him at the e-mail address at the end of this
column.
We are all specialists of one kind or another; we know
how complex the challenges of our own job are but have little
awareness of the complexities of other jobs.
You have seven years in HR consulting, which has given
you a wide range of experience, yet you are having trouble turning
interviews into job offers.
I think it is time to start looking at your
professional survival and success in a different way.
If you evaluate all the necessary skill sets needed for
survival, success and professional stability over the long haul,
you would have to include career management. This is a component of
professional success where almost everyone is weak. Most people
believe those myths about "just be yourself" and "work hard, be
loyal and you will be rewarded with job security." People who
believe these ideas may think managing your career isn't necessary.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Currently, individuals, on average, work for 50 years
and change jobs about every four, making 12 to 15 changes over
their working lives.
There are no easy answers to any of the issues
troubling you, but there are practical solutions. For starters,
your most critical professional survival and success skills are,
scarily, the very skills where you may be the weakest:
Step back and evaluate how you can best re-educate
yourself in each of these areas to establish an effective new
approach to career management. In today's world of work,
uncertainty is your only certainty. Absorb these words and the
advice that has been linked to, above, and you will develop the
skills to get on track and thrive.