Why Its A Mistake To Leave This Out Of Your Job Search

Why Its A Mistake To Leave This Out Of Your Job SearchWhy Its A Mistake To Leave This Out Of Your Job SearchJob search is frustrating, disheartening, physically and mentally exhausting, and an up-and-down roller coaster (it can even feel like those roller coasters that go backwards). Someone emails you to say they want you to do a phone interview but then the date and time passes by and the person has disappeared. You went on an in-person interview and it felt great, but a month later, theres still silence. Remaining positive in the face of all of this is not just a nice concept to read about on the Internet. Making a conscious decision to embrace a positive attitude every day when you wake up serves you, and is in your own best interest. That conscious decision is called mental toughness. Pro athletes haveit. They strike out, miss the jump shot, and fumble the ball. But if theywalked around with their faces on the floor after every mistake, they wouldhave never reached the professi onal level or sustained their positions foryears. They watch game-day videos, break them down, rewind them, and analyzethem, so they can learn from their mistakes, grow, and be better. You can applysimilar strategies to your job search, so that you move through it with adegree of mental toughness.Focus, Then You Will FindIf your job search drags on, the tendency is to want to expand the type of opportunities youre looking at. To do so, you make your resume and cover letter more general. No luck landing a pharmaceutical schlussverkauf job? Well, remove all references to pharmaceuticals, and just go for any sales job. Right? Nope.Lets mentally go through a few steps here you remove as many instances of the word pharmaceutical as possible, so that the employers and recruiters on LinkedIn will look at you for other sales jobs. The problem with that thinking is the employer is not hiring you to sell anything. Theyre hiring you to sell their thing. If their widget is some fantastic innova tion in the construction sector, and you dont have any construction background, youre unlikely to get the call.Instead of giving up on your main objective, dig deeper. Rewind thetape of your job search, break down your moves, analyze, and grow. Perhapsinstead of blasting your resume all over the Internet for pharmaceutical salesjobs, you look at each pharmaceutical opportunity one by one, identify arelevant human being with whom you can speak directly in that organization, andinitiate a conversation with them.Press On, UntilA question I hear from a candidate nearly every day of the week is, Should I call again? or, Should I follow up with another email? My answer exactly 100% of the time is a resounding, yes. Dont give up. Press on until you get an answer. The struggle is that if youve followed up a few times, you feel like a pest or feel like you look desperate. However, step out of your own head and take on the other persons perspective. The other person is doing business. Youre n ot bothering them at 10 pmat home. Theyre at work. Youre calling or emailing about business, which is aperfectly professional move for you to make. There has not been a singleinstance Ive heard of in my professional career in which the person on thereceiving end screamed at the candidate, Why are you calling me, you fool? Itjust doesnt happen. So make the call. Send the email. Use reasonable timing,of course, whether thats once a week, biweekly, or monthly. There are only 2possible results you get ignored (which means you are no worse off anyway), orthey say, Hey, you know what? Im so glad you circled back to me.Dont Jump To ConclusionsIts normal and natural human thinking to fill silence with something bad. So if you interview but dont hear from them, even after following up, your mind settles on the reality that you just didnt get the job for whatever reason. However, silence doesnt necessarily mean no. Only no definitely means no.Instead of jumping to the conclusion that youre ou t, operate on the assumption that theres still a possibility. This is not to say that you live and breathe every moment of every day thinking about that employer and your interactions and communications with the relevant people there. However, it does mean that you move this opportunity in your mind to the back burner but dont stop cooking with gas altogether. Your timing is not necessarily the employers timing. Hiring almostalways takes longer than you ant it to. What you do during this time iscultivate the relationship. Make sure youre connected and / or following therelevant people on LinkedIn. Stay top of mind by showing up on their feeds withlikes, comments, relevant articles, and congrats on various accomplishments andmilestones. Your steady presence can make a difference.Just like the pro athlete didnt go from varsity to the NBA overnight, you cant wake up tomorrow and declare that from this day forward you will be 101% mentally tough. Practice. Conduct your job search syste matically and (gasp) grant yourself a break when you need to that way, you can come back stronger.What will also help is Im showing jobseekers how to get hired in half the time. If you dont know how to do this, there are several mindset components that are important here, like how to get over that desperate feeling so you can be confident in what youre presenting about yourself, and how to sell yourself the right way in an email, on the phone, and in person so that you really connect with the right people and move through the process until you land the job you really want. Register today.