Find a job fast

Is your job search seeming to take far too long? If so maybe you are aware that you have problems such as having been out of work and on a limited income for so long you are out of the loop and have lost or not been able to make new contacts. Well, whenever you have a problem, one of the best ways to see it more clearly and start to solve it is to write things down.

Right from our school days we are taught to write things down when trying to solve them, such as a maths equation, and pretty much every great invention or discovery started off as ideas on paper.

Writing things down can help your job search too. Begin by asking yourself questions, but positive ones, because actually most questions jobseekers ask themselves and others such as family and friends, are pretty depressing such as Why can’t I get a job!!!?  So, ask questions that encourage and motivate you such as How can I encourage people to contact me if they know of any jobs?

• ·         How do people I know get jobs?

• ·         What did I do that worked when I was last looking for a job?

A useful tip is to ask yourself only questions that you can solve, do not have to depend on the Job centre, your family or anybody or anything else because this takes away the power that will give you confidence when you find the answers. …. Now write down some empowering questions about your hunt for a job, and think of some answers.

Don’t stop until you have as many answers to each question as you can possibly think of. Then after this, take action the very same day on at least one answer. Maybe it is to produce a new resume /CV and you have replied that you do not have one, so need to get help to write one, and to get help, you are going to look online at the available resources.

Maybe you feel that you hear so much about the benefits of networking, but you no longer have any useful contacts, short of money with no job you have been out of the loop for some time and lost contact with many people that you used to know who may have helped you get a job? Then make a list of those you do still know and tell them your situation …don’t be embarrassed even look up some old friends ….

Making a plan, using a method and working through it gets results.

Valerie Hedges