Posted by guest blogger Kay Dewane who was recently hired full-time after looking for work for six months
When I was looking for work, I overheard a man say he didn’t like his job. It felt like he was rubbing salt in the wound. There I was dreaming of the day when I could get back into a daily life routine and plug in my skill set in a new setting. Instead, I spent my time preparing for the next interview, updating a resume, or worrying that I didn’t have the latest skills that employers wanted.
Losing a job exposes a myriad of feelings: anger, frustration, vulnerability, insecurity. Here are a few tools that helped me handle the emotional roller coaster.
• Do not beat yourself up
• Turn to people you trust for support
• Join/start a job club
• Stay connected through networking/always network
• Remain positive during a long search, do not give up
• Most of all, be sure to focus on things in your life you can control
One of my favorite authors Marabel Morgan said, “Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time”. With persistence your dreams will bloom into a reality far more vivid than you can even imagine.
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