I’ve either spoken to or been emailed by a number of stressed people today. I guess it’s mid-week, not much has happened for them with their job-search and they are all feeling down.
When I was recruiting, I’d make a lot of phone calls. The worse thing is that busy days weren’t the days you made the most calls. They were the days you actually got people on the phone. The tough days were the ones where you left 150 messages and spoke to no one.
You could really get down after a day like that. Rookies would let that get to them all the time. I knew it was like sowing seeds in a field. That the backbreaking work would result in a call back sometime in the future and I would get my harvest. I also always knew that the next phone call could literally change my life. It could be a top candidate for that tough position I was working on or a new client or a referral. That is what kept me making calls.
I figure that most job seekers are rookies in they aren’t seeing any results from their efforts. When it gets tough, you need to forge ahead. You also need to stop, relax and evaluate what you’re doing and the results you’re getting. I thought this holistic article had some great ideas.
The Rejuvenation Lounge » Meaningful Ways To Slow Yourself Down When Feeling Rushed:
If you are sending out resume after resume and not getting any response, there is something wrong, either with the resume or your strategy of who you are sending it to. You can control both of those.
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