In a recent survey, job seekers rated “staying positive after rejection” as the 2nd most difficult part of looking for a job. (Learn what was rated first in my next post.)
In my webinars, the number one complaint is “not getting responses from employers after submitting resumes.” Job seekers struggle with questions like: Should I follow up with the company? How soon? How often? So much stress is attached to waiting to hear about that one position.
The questions about follow up are reasonable but my next question is always “How many additional jobs have you applied for since applying to the one in question? “
When you find a job that is a good fit, waiting to hear is stressful, for sure. But what makes it even more stressful is that, in most cases, people put the search on hold ...waiting, waiting, waiting. That even stresses me out! It’s a MAJOR mistake.
I have a paper shredder that works best when I feed the paper into it in a steady flow. If I put one page at a time in the shredder, it shuts down between each. It takes time to get it started again and I get agitated. It’s the same with the job search. You can reduce that depression after rejection by just have more resumes flowing in the pipeline. Then, if you learn that you were not selected for Job A, it may be disappointing but not devastating. Keep those applications and resumes going out…like putting the pages in my shredder, one after another. It will not only reduce that feeling of rejection; it will shorten your search. Seems like a “no brainer” to me!
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