The mental side of your search is just as challenging as the emotional. You need to stay sharp so you can speak knowledgeably and confidently during interviews. Yet, it’s difficult when you’re not working in your area of expertise.
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The mental side of your search is just as challenging as the emotional. You need to stay sharp so you can speak knowledgeably and confidently during interviews. Yet, it’s difficult when you’re not working in your area of expertise.
You are a unique individual. Your work history is as unique as you are. It follows that your job search should reflect your uniqueness as well. While aspects of your search will be similar to that of others, other aspects will be yours alone.
Job hunting can be such a challenge, especially if the process goes on for weeks or months without results. It’s easy to understand why you could start feeling discouraged…
As you spend time in your job search, are you becoming aware of your weaknesses? We all have weaknesses, but how do we recognize them and turn them into strengths?
How proud are you? We are proud individualists and insist on doing things for ourselves. We don’t want to depend on anyone for anything if we can help it. But do you recognize when and who you should be putting your trust in?
Does it feel like life just keeps throwing up roadblocks that get in the way of a successful job search? Do your life’s circumstances seem to keep you down and hold you back from searching for that perfect job or career? Or are you allowing them to to do so?
What are you envisioning about the outcome of your job search…is your self-talk positive or negative, and what is it’s source?
Pain is a constant in the human condition. Oh, you may go days and sometimes even weeks without pain, but then it raises its formidable head again, and you are in some type of pain once again…