Job Hunting Tips #3 Organizing your Attack

Written by Virginia Bola, PsyD


Looking for work is an energy-devouring ordeal, often leading to running in circles and not getting anywhere. A systematic approach can help you focus on your goal, avoid wastingrepparttar energy you need to conserve for interviews and employer contacts, and lower your stress level.

Some resources you might find helpful include:

1. Newspaper classified. Pro: you know that an opening does exist or a company wouldn’t spend money to advertise. Con: there may be thousands of applicants for one position. Value depends uponrepparttar 101463 kind of work you are looking for andrepparttar 101464 uniqueness of your skills and experience. Certainly worth a weekend check but cannot be exclusively relied upon. 2. Registering with agencies. Pro: they only make money when you obtain work so they are motivated to get you employment. Con: they need you to take a job, any job, so they can earn their fees and they work to keep their real clients, employers, happy so often screen you out ofrepparttar 101465 really good jobs if they have any doubt about how well you will fit. 3. Internet resources. There are some good resources – Monster.com and Careerbuilder andrepparttar 101466 job finder section of most major home pages. Beware of wasting time on groups. While some (a very few) are well-managed and inappropriate postings screened out, others (many) are choked with pornographic messages.

Job Hunting Tips #1 Containing Anxiety

Written by Virginia Bola, Psy D


It hangs fromrepparttar ceiling above your bed while you toss throughrepparttar 101462 night hours. It waits insiderepparttar 101463 door of every employment office you enter. It dogs your footsteps as you poundrepparttar 101464 job search pavement. It lounges in an empty chair as you crawl through another desultory interview. It sits on your shoulder while you balance your checkbook’s alarmingly diminishing balance.

Its name is anxiety. It’s made up of fear, self-doubt, guilt, dread, and self-reproach. It ties your stomach in knots, makes sweat ooze from your pores, makes your head hurt, your memory blur, and your concentration dissipate. You can’t wash it away, will it away or beat it away. The only way to contain it is to embrace it, to make it your ally and your friend. How?

1. Although anxiety can unnerve you and make you feel paralyzed, consider its ability to energize you. Watch it carefully, without emotion or judgment distorting your vision, and you will see it raiserepparttar 101465 hairs on your neck, excite your thought processes, heighten your senses, stir your imagination and make you keenly aware of being alive. Trace its pathway through your body, coursing through your veins and touching every part of each extremity. Instead of fighting it, embrace it as if it were a natural amphetamine, a pill that makes you feel a little strange but also exhilarated.

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