Tips To Staying Positive When Searching For A Job

Job hunting can be such a sad and exhausting task. The worst part is, you really can't afford to become exhausted by it because you need to keep up your energy to keep up that job hunt before all your funds run out! Since I'm a freelance contractor, my job entails basically always being on the job hunt and seeking new projects, so I've learned some tips along the way to keep up my energy during the search.

Remember your efforts

Sending out a dozen applications every single day and not hearing anything back can be so depressing! You begin to feel like your efforts are for nothing as you think of the dozens of places you already applied to who haven't gotten back to you. But, that's just not the way you should see things. While you're not hearing anything today, think about all the seeds you have planted out in the hiring world. In my experience, most hirers take at least a week and as many as a few weeks to get back to you since they have to review so many applicants. Since I have had the experience of hearing back from someone who I forgot I had even applied to weeks before, I now take comfort in knowing that any day, any of those seeds I put out there weeks ago might just come to fruition for me.

Don't be stubborn

Think you're supposed to "rough it?" Think that "hand outs" make you a wimp? Think again. Do you truly subscribe to the idea that everyone with a job just called or emailed up their employer and asked for a job without a good reference? By knowing absolutely no one in the industry, if not at the exact place of work where they applied? Yeah right. It is perfectly okay to ask for help from a friend or family member who you know has connections in the field you'd like to work in. Look, their connection could either hire someone they don't know at all who has no references, or they could hire you, who is equally as hard a worker.

Chat everyone up

When you're bummed about not finding a job, you may not feel up for going out of your house. But you'll be doing yourself a disservice if you don't. You need to be putting out there into the atmosphere that you're on the job hunt. You just can't determine when the atmosphere may answer. My friend who moved to a new city in hopes of being a voice coach realized she had no idea where to find clients or where to set up her lessons. One day at the dog park she began speaking to an elderly woman, telling her about her job hunt, and it turned out that woman's daughter was a prominent voice instructor in the area who had taught many celebrities how to sing better. The woman gave my friend her daughter's email address so the two could get in touch.

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Vera Esther writes about topics in healthy lifestyle, relationships and travel. Her articles have appeared in dozens of publications and titles have ranged from "Is Your Date A Relationship Addict?" to "Let Your Computer Be Your Voice Coach" (an ironic spin about the site http://www.thesingingzone.com/)

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