Reevaluate Your Job Search Methods for Future Success

If you feel like your job search has hit a roadblock or aren’t seeing any progress, why not use your spare time to complete important tasks?

Give yourself the time to reflect on your performance to this point, reevaluate your job search methods for future success, and identify areas for improvement.

Take a Step Back

If you’ve been living and breathing your job search for several weeks now, you may feel like you can’t think straight anymore. You and your job search may greatly benefit from a short timeout. Take a short weekend trip or take a few days off to relax and reinvigorate your efforts. Gain some new perspective and come back refreshed.

How effective are your career documents?

Take the time to re-examine your career documents. Could your resume or cover letter use some touch-ups, or must they be updated? The problem may lie in your resume and cover letter if you haven’t received many interviews.

Have a professional resume writer review it and provide suggestions on improving its content. You can also find samples of powerful resumes and cover letters on the Internet to give you some ideas. Ensure your resume is full of your professional accomplishments and appropriate industry keywords, and your cover letter conveys your skills and passion for your industry.

How diversified are your job search efforts?

Too often, job seekers focus on only one method to find potential job opportunities. Nowadays, this means searching online job boards for available jobs. However, there are several places to find job opportunities; don’t limit your efforts to only one area. In addition to online job boards, you can find positions through company websites, cold calling, recruiters, networking, LinkedIn, classified ads, job fairs, or community events.

What feedback have you received from past interviews?

Look carefully through all feedback you may have received after your past interviews. It could contain valuable information and insight into your interviewing skills. Use the feedback you receive to improve your future interview performance. You can also use some of the information to enhance the message in your resume and cover letter.

Revisit Your Goals

How focused is your job target? How aligned with your professional skills and experience is it? These are essential questions you must ask yourself to ensure your job search is on the right track.

Have a specific job target in mind. Don’t just send a generic resume to any position posted; focus your resume and cover letter appropriately for the particular niche in your industry. When you apply to relevant positions, your skills and accomplishments relevant to the position are evident to an employer.

This extra time can provide clarity and focus to help take your job search to the next level.

Need additional help? Reach out to Candace to learn more!